>Well, computers, software = sometimes unexpected behaviour.
>But I'd be surprised though that this would not work in vfp8 where it did in vfp6
>I'm sure you can get it to work in vfp8
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I checked in VFP9, it doesn't work here either. So, the solution is to unbind for a moment and bind back.

>And btw, I'd say that this is normal behaviour. When it comes to InputMasks for a DateTime, vfp knows best. That's why they get blanked out as soon as vfp is able to determine it's date/datetime either by binding or by setting the value
>

If it knows best, why I can type anything if the Format is not set? It should not allow me to type "mama" there.