Robolovsky In my opinion, all of the fields (except, I suppose, the paragraph) should have the option to discard spaces. I had a problem with a form where a person was copying our college's student ID number from a document and pasting it into a text field in a form. The ID is always nine characters long, so I set up the field allow only exactly nine characters. It was also required. However, the string copied from the document included an initial space. The text field accepted the first nine characters, including the space, and cut off the last character from the ID number. It took me quite some time to figure out why some students were getting incorrect ID numbers submitted in their forms. As far as I know, this problem still happens in Machform. Since only a few users were doing this, I had to tell them to type in the ID numbers instead of using copy and paste and the problem stopped happening here.