>>Since the PADL() chokes it up on you, does this work OK?
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>>TRANSFORM(numused,"@L ##")
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>the answer is Yes. That works fine. I still have no clue what on earth was happening as a result of the PADL command.
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>Intrigued by the use of the @L formatting code I went looking for it in the help and it aint mentioned there. That raised a number of questions but I'll start another thread for those...
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>Thanks
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>Harry

It's in help under the Format property, but it sure should be with the others with TRANSFORM(). The whole documentation of some of that older stuff is pretty poor.