>Many thanks Cetin.
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>The customer is using the column as a character field & a date field which is not ideal. It suppose its bad program design I suppose, but anyway it does show how flexible Foxpro can be.
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>Thanks Again
>Robin

Glad to be helpful. I wouldn't judge on design w/o seeing :) Sometimes I myself pack many datatypes into a column (converted of course) on purpose.
BTW even there is another option of using a container there but honestly I find containers much less controllable in grids.
Cetin