Hi Bill, Use SuprTool.... at least I would.... out put the record to a flat file and then read it back in with the bytes/characters changed as you need them to be... We did it here when we needed to change a character ID number. Art Bahrs >>> Bill Lancaster <[log in to unmask]> 05/12/97 10:20am >>> Hi, Does anyone have a quick and dirty way to delete all leading zeroes from a numeric field in a manual master? Quiz, QTP and SUPRTOOL are all available... TIA, Bill Lancaster