Sorry, of course you're right. My mind was trapped on .Value rather than .Text

Alan

>It's always text regardless of the Value property type and represent unformatted Value in the text form.
>
>>If the This.Text is numeric?
>>
>>Alan
>>
>>>Hi Marcia,
>>>
>>>Wouldn't

This.SelLength = LEN( This.Text )

work?
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is there a way to make VFP select all of a textbox when it gets focus?
>>>>
>>>>In addition to what Fred and Armin told you, if you are going to go this route in the GotFocus(), you need to do it in a manner similar to this:
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>Textbox::GotFocus()
>>>>This.SelStart = 0
>>>>This.SelLength = LEN( TRANSFORM( This.Value ) )
>>>>NODEFAULT
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>The reason is that the default VFP GotFocus behavior ( and by default the native behavior executes at the end of the method after your custom code ) resets SelStart and SelLength. So what you need to do is run the native code before your custom code and suppress it afterwaRD.