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welcome to another tech help video brought to you by accesslearningzone.com i am your instructor richard ross in today's lesson we're going to talk about input masks and more specifically how to create an input mask to enter values with different lengths today's question comes from muhammad and he says in my country our cell phone number is usually with a three character header and seven following digits but now some of the country is using the three character header which here in the us we call an area code with eight following digits when i set the cell phone text box with an input mask for seven digits it won't allow the use of eight but when i set it for eight it won't allow the use for seven so how can i set it to accept both when you're dealing with phone numbers personally i always talk in my beginner class about always storing phone numbers in text fields don't use number fields if you're going to be doing math on a value adding subtracting taking a sum and average so on then yes use a number field but for things that you're not going to be doing calculations on store them as text however even being stored as text you might still want to force the user to enter the value as a digit 0 through 9. now with input masks there's two types of codes you can use there's a zero and there's a nine zero says the user must enter a digit nine says the user can enter a digit it's optional so here's how this would work in your case muhammad okay here i've got my basic customer table first name last name and so on and over here i've got a phone number field now my phone number field has no formatting on it no formatting and no input mask so people can go crazy and put in whatever they want any number of digits characters whatever all right let's clean this up let's get rid of these here first of all before you put an input mask on make sure all the data in your field uh meets the format that you've got or else you'll get errors or put it on a brand new blank field all right so here i've got my in in the us it's a three digit area code followed by a seven digit number let's say just like your country in the us here they decided to add a random eighth digit on the end there it's optional you can have it or not so how would i adjust my input mask well i don't have one right now let's put one on normally for my input mask under phone number field i'd come down here under input mask and go zero zero zero dash zero zero zero dash zero zero zero zero now the zeros say you have to put in that digit you have...