Thanks Marcia - taking out the ! did the trick.

Gaylen

>In the example of New MEP - it entered "YNew MEP" with the Y having two dots over it. It also happens with all the other functions key I have set up in the keypress event for this field. I am using VFP7
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>You have two ways to go on this one:
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>Take the ! out of the format property of the text box
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>or
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>Add the word NODEFAULT after this line of code:
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>this.Value = "New MEP"