You're doing nothing wrong, Arnold. The display format of the data is one
thing and the data in the database is another. Why would you want to waste
space in the database to store the parentheses, spaces and dash in the phone
number when you can interpret it as you wish on output?

John

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Arnold Roth <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have created a form to enter data where one of the fields is a telephone
> number.  In setting up the table, I entered a custom format  as
> "("xxx")"xxx"-"xxxx.  This shows as I expected (area code in parentheses
> followed by the digits) in the format box.
>
> When I enter phone numbers in the form, they simply appear in the table as
> a string of numbers without the formatting.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  Thanks
>
> Arnold Roth
>
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