Do you have the field set to Text, not a number?

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"prodata" wrote in message
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On May 20, 4:17 pm, "Douglas J. Steele"
wrote:
Read about the (optional) second section in the Help file (or
seehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb215691.aspx)


Thanks - that suggests that simply adding a semicolon and a zero to
the end of my input mask should do the trick. But sadly it doesn't
seem to.

So, if I set the input mask to 00:00:00;0 (penultimate character is a
semicolon) then 12:34:56 is still stored just as 123456 .

Using 00\:00\:00;0 gives no improvement.

What am I missing? Does the input mask need to be in quotes? Should
there be a space in there after the semicolon, or an additional
terminating semicolon? Or what?