Masking doesn't respond

[RustyRick]

I am using a canned download from MS to handle contacts.

So I entered the mask > which is supposed to convert everything to capital letters. But nothing responds?

I want to type with some speed and not worry about hitting the cap locks.

 

[CJ_London]

So I entered the mask > which is supposed to convert everything to capital letters.

No, it does not. Either way > works in format, not mask and both format and mask do not modify what you type, the former is what it looks like and the latter is to do with spacing, number v alpha etc

so typing a lowercase a will display as uppercase A but be stored in lowercase.

To convert lowercase typing to stored uppercase put the following in the afterupdate event of each control where you want this to happen

mycontrol=ucase(mycontrol)

 

[RustyRick]

I was sure if my memory serve me right, it used to. Or at lease I used to use it that way.
And the book clearly says it should.