>>>In the Format Property, the "!" DOES affect the entire field, but in the InputMask it's per-character.
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>>Thanks, I didn't know that. Now is there a shortcut to typing (in my case) 29 "X's" after the "!"? I have a 30 character name field?
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>"!"+repl("X",29) in the expression builder, or type seven Xes, copy and then paste them three times, add one... couldn't think on anything easier. Type five, paste five times, delete one?
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>There are two kinds of lazy programmers.

Thanks Dragan
You mean those who only want to add one and those who only want to delete one?;) I just wasn't sure whether I could refer to the first character and then everything which followed via some shortcut, but it sounds like whichever way you do it, you have to account for all of the characters in the input mask.
Sylvia