Currently I am working on a program that was started by someone else and the author had the textboxes programmed where the user could enter the phone number w/out entering the parentheses and dashes. They would automatically pop up on there own. Recently we've upgraded our server and now it doesn't work and I'm not sure how they programmed it. Any suggestions:D

Here is a link to code project with something like what you are asking for - which is commonly known as a Masked textbox.
VB6 has one, and if you have that available, you can also use that.

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/maskedbox_control.asp

Woody Z http://www.learntoprogramnow.com