Gerard, the form created by the InputBox() function is only programmatically accessible via the parameters passed to it by the function, so the text typed by the user cannot be hidden in its current implementation (this is also true for the VFP 8.0 public beta).

However, you could duplicate this functionality by creating a form this a text box and setting the PasswordChar property of the textbox (as Mr. Wynne suggested) to an asterisk (or some other character) to hide the displayed text. You can then validate the value entered by the user.

John