Thanks for the addional info Dragan

Bob

>>Thanks again Robert,
>>
>>How do you "set the cursor position to the start of the time area, highlight to end of field"?
>
>in the gotfocus:
>with this
> .selstart=at(" ", this.text)
> .sellength=5
>endwith
>This is offhand - I assume (didn't really test) that a textbox with a datetime value has a space between the date and time portions in the .text property. You may need to set .selstart=10 or 12 (depending on Set("century")="OFF" or "ON").