[AccessD] Phone Number Input Mask

Arthur, you might just have a request that can't actually be completely 
fulfilled. What happens when you delete the !? If you force from the right, 
and allow for five digits, but might only have two in the extension, well, 
the mask has no way of knowing that it just fill only 3 instead of 5. Since 
you have five digits possible in the ext component and you're forcing a 
right fill, it's going to fill all five.

Susan H.


> I'm trying to devise a mask for a 10-digit North-American style phone
> number, *plus* room for an optional extension. I modified the built-in 
> mask
> but it's not quite working. The mask I have now is:
>
> !\(999") "000\-0000" Ext. "99999;;_
>
> When I enter the number "6477101314234" I expect to see
>
> (647) 710-1314 Ext. 234
>
> and indeed, that's what I'm seeing *until *I press the Tab key to exit the
> field. Then the display changes to this:
>
> (  6) 477-1013 Ext. 14234
>
> As BatMan might ask his butler Alfred, "Can you fix my mask?"
>
> TIA,