Hi George
The 'Century' property of the textbox.. I never knew one existed.. this should do the trick. Thanks a lot for your help


>>Hi George
>>
>>I've tried set century on as follows but the date always appears with 4 digits:
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>>1. On a from I set up a Button, whose click event has :
>> Set century off
>> Thisform.refresh()
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>>2. I enter my text box control (which has todays date
>> The date still apeears as 13/02/2004 (European )
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>>What I want to do is get it to display as 13/02/04
>>
>>regards
>
>Gerard,
>
>Try setting the input mask to 99/99/99 and the format to R.