>Hi Dear,
>
>I want to use date format as
>01-DEC
>
>whereas i have set the date format to british but the short date format is needed just for one text box in Report and i don't want to chage overall date format.
>
>Nafees

Mohammed,
You could change the textbox's field expression. ie: say it's myDateField

padl(day(myDateField),2,'0')+'-'+upper(left(cmonth(myDateField),3))

For the second part you might need to call a UDF or array element to override localized lang.

dimension mycMonth[12]
mycMonth[1]='JAN'
...
mycMonth[1]='DEC'

*report expr
padl(day(myDateField),2,'0')+'-'+mycmonth[month(myDateField)]

Cetin