>>You may be right, but I find the NET documentation extremely difficult to follow. This
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>>	RetVal += "<td>" + oReader("priorpmt").GetDecimal().ToString("$ #0,0.00") + "</td>"
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>>Does not work. "Error says Public member 'GetDecimal' on type 'Decimal' not found."
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>I agree - the documentation at MSDN is not very helpful. Try to google on GetDecimal and on your problem.
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>Also I changed GetDecimal to GetDecimal(), but I'm not certain you can do this in one line. If it would not work, use two vars workaround.

Thanks Naomi. I gave up and used the 2 line version with a var. :) Dumb M$, how I wish NET was as straight forward as Fox.