>>Well please ignore the questions about the formatting of the grids and forms. I inquired a little too soon. I figured out where to put the "Z" formatting for the grid and the form. For the grid I needed to put the formatting character in the Column's format property not the textbox itself. And on the form, I put it in the format property of the textbox.
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>>I'm assuming the formatting of fields on the report design will be the same.
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>When you double-click a textbox on the report, click the button to the right of the format field. In the dialogue there, pick Numeric on the left, and you'll get the choices on the right. If it's not there, just put a "@Z 999,999,999.99" (with appropriate number of nines) in the format field.

Thanks. I give that a look see.