>hi all:
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>i would like to know if there is any way by which i can encrypt a date field.
>
>many thanks in advance.

VFP 7.0 comes with a _crypt.vcx class in the FFC that will allow you to do this with text. There's a there's a sample demonstrating this. A date field, however, would have to be converted to text first and stored that way.