Dear Rasheed
1) Set the font for this field to Courier New
2) Since it's a normal date field, just set alignment to Left, and reading order to either Context or Left-To-Right, and it should work.

Regards,
Jaime

>Hi Jaime ;
> I tried your suggestion and it worked. however, It still gives aproblem in printing. If I enter ÊÇÑíÎ 16/06/2004 in the textbox and in the print preview it display as expected, when a hardcopy is generated it becomes messy eg 06/2004 ÊÇÑíÎ . I can't even write it in here.
>I am used different hp laser printers eg hp laserjet 5, and 1300.
>I tried left justifed and right justfied if the repot but still same issue.
>
>I will gratefull for any suggestion to resolve this issue.
>
>Thanks