Hi Cathy:

You make me feel happy again!!! but this is horrible!!! is like go back to the stone time...

Why they make the formatting process so long now, ok , ok I will try it and see what is the problem, hope this code can be reused in other textcontrol that I will have the same problem like dollar amount. But I still dissapointed with this new way to format textboxes...

Anyway thank you so much!!! BTW Kevin left this in the book uncovered will be nice if he include some code with that in the revision of the book. Even Microsoft did not have example covering this simple problem. Yesterday I download 101 samples for VB.net and scanned throu them and did not find anything related.