Hi Bill,

I'm not sure, that you'd like my idea, but you can simply insert lables in your report with ( and -. Right?

Another observation, which I made, is not related with your question, but with your message itself. I noticed several times here in UT word 'seperate'. Is it a usual typo or a common English word? :)

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>Have a basic problem. I have a table with seperate fields for area code (char. 3pos.) and phone number (Char. 7pos) with no format codes. Trying to print these fields and am not able to get () or '-' to show up on report. This is a vfp6 app.
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>I have tried @R(999), @(999), R(999), (999) for the are code and I only get the 3 numbers such as 303.
>I have tried @R999-9999, @R###-#### and exclude the 'R' and or the '@' and only get the 7 numbers such as 9876543.
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>What am I missing.
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>Any help would be appreciated
> TIA
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>Bill