>Bruce,
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>Add a label control with no caption to the date column, then in the columns DynamicCurrentControl property use syntax similar to ...
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> IIF(!EMPTY(zTable.SomeDate),'Text1','Label1')

That's another idea that could work fine...but I've gone to a cursor with DTOC for the date fields, it just makes life easier, since this is displayed in 3 different grids and a report...