Hi James R,
I believe you'll get what you want if you set the Format property to R.

>Something easy I'm missing here ...
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>I have a numeric column in a grid. I'd like the values to display using a value for inputmask of '9,999,999'.
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>However, the user can modify the data in this column, and the inputmask really screws things up when the user tries using the keyboard.
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>So, I'll looking for the way to set the inputmask so that it applies for each row, unless the user is editing the value, in which case I want to discard the inputmask. Somehow, this seems related to "sparse" (which is .F. is my example)?
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>Thanks