>Hi ya Steve,
>
>Yes, the numbers are used in calculations, but I thought about changing to CHAR from NUMERIC too. Maybe I could and then use VAL() when the time comes to use them in calculations. I was just hoping to avoid changing tons of code because this is more of a bug fix than anything else and I know the calculations portion is a huge amount of code.
>

Steve,

A quick fix would be to leave at numeric in the table, but use character values in the list box.

* reading record
SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO
m.myfield1 = str(m.myfield1,0,0)

* saving record
m.myfield1 = val(m.myfield1)
GATHER MEMVAR MEMO