Thanks Jim, this is similar to what Sergey recommended and it works. I'm going to save your message in my favorites for future use! I find that not touching reports for awhile and then going back to them after some time has passed, I forget too much! I have to start looking at all of my other reports for examples...
Tracy

>>But Jim, this is a field on a report, not a form. Is there a way to do this to control the display of a zipcode (stored in the table like: 28314, 238934444, etc) in reports?
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>Tracy,
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>In that case I would either one of making the field expression;
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>IIF(LEN(ALLTRIM(Zip))>5,TRANSFORM(Zip,"@R 99999-9999"),TRANSFORM(Zip,"99999"))
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>Or preprocessing the data
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>* Code that runs the report
>CREATE CURSOR MyRptCsr ;
>   ( Fld1 C(20), ;
>     ...,
>     Zip C(10))
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>SELECT TheTableForTheData
>SCAN
>   APPEND BLANK IN MyRptCsr
>   IF LEN(ALLTRIM(Zip)) > 5
>      REPLACE Fld1 WITH TheTableForTheData.Something, ;
>              ...  WITH ..., ;
>              Zip  WITH TRANSFORM(TheTableForTheData.Zip,"@R 99999-9999")
>   ELSE
>      REPLACE Fld1 WITH TheTableForTheData.Something, ;
>              ...  WITH ..., ;
>              Zip  WITH TheTableForTheData.Zip
>   ENDIF
>ENDSCAN
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>Then run the report using MyRptCsr