>>Ok, so...
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>>IIF(EMPTY(CTOT(TRANSFORM(cValue),'@R ^99/99/99T99:99:99'))),cValue,CTOT(TRANSFORM(cValue),'@R ^99/99/99T99:99:99')))
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>>I guess I was trying not to add the conditinal overhead to every value in the detail line in the report, but now that I think about it, there really is no other way.
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>You cold use Dynamics in the report, but for that you should redistribute all REPORT*.APP to your clients.

You know, that solution is not going to work for me. A zip code just evaluated to a date of 10/01/03 and the EMPTY() would not catch that. Numerics are going to be a problem. I do not know the type of cValue, so how can I make sure I only convert valid dates to dates?