# Any Microsoft Infopath pros here?  Got a question about data validation!

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 23, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-microsoft-infopath-pros-here-got-a-question-about-data-validation/295943 "2005-03-23T21:08:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![anamnesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@anamnesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anamnesis)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-microsoft-infopath-pros-here-got-a-question-about-data-validation/295943/1 "2005-03-23T21:08:47Z")

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If there are any Infopath experts reading, I’d love to know if there’s any possible way to eliminate the little red asterisk that shows up in data validation fields on forms. I understand from reading many other sources that this is part of a standard in either XML, SQL, or .NET development. I’m by no means a developer or programmer, but why does this have to be on there? Just to tell the user that the data needs to be verified? It’s a bit distracting considering there’s already an inline error message or window that can pop up to tell them this if they don’t enter a piece of data correctly … so what the hell do we need the asterisk for?

It’s just really irritating me … isn’t there any way to get rid of it?