>>Ernie,
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>>Adding to what Barbara said. . . you must also ensure that you have CONFIRM set OFF.
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>>Cheers,
>>Jim N
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>>>>Is there a property that can be set *somewhere* that will globally cause the cursor to exit a textbox field when the maximum amount of data allowed has been entered? You know, say a phone number with 10 digits ... after the 10th digit is entered, I would like the cursor to move to the next control. (Pretty common, but for the life of me, I can't find what makes that happen.)
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>>>>Please and thanks.
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>>>Ernie, check the FORMAT and INPUTMASK properties of the textbox control. You should be able to handle everything you want with these - telephone numbers, social security numbers, etc.
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>>>Barbara
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>Thanks for your input. I've tried playing with FORMAT, INPUTMASK, MAXLENGTH, and making sure SET("CONFIRM") = OFF but I'm still having trouble making this work. I must still be missing something. Inputmask is (999) 999-9999, Maxlength is 10, and Format is KZ. Could there be an overriding property elsewhere? Baffled.
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>Ernie

Create a Inputmask table 'tMask' with a character field 'cphmsk' Set the field's value to '9999999999'. Then in the Textbox inputmask property type '=tMask.cphmsk'. Note that table 'tMask' must be open when the form containing the textbox is displayed.