I don't believe that is correct for the formatting of a report. In other words, you could use "@R (999) 999-9999" in the Formatting Codes field, but you can't call a function that returns that value that VFP then uses for the formatting.

>Sure. Expression can ba anything, like myfunc(myvalue)
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>>Can you use a function to format a field? For example, sometimes it needs to be numeric, sometimes currency. It can be done with multiple fields, one on top of the other, with which one prints controlled by another field (the old-fashioned way <g>). It could be done with a report listener, I imagine, but speed is of the essense here. I just don't remember that VFP allowed this in reports (too bad).
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>>Russell Campbell