My guess would be that you're using proportinal font for this field. In this case the 30 characters in Upper case are wider than in lower or proper case and don't fit into the field width.

>The below works:
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>LEFT(PROPER(po_name),30)
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>However, the following does not:
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>LEFT(UPPER(po_name),30)
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>Is this a bug? I noticed it first when I tried to print as many characters from a field as possible that would fit on a report. If the field is in upper case, then the entire word is cropped when it stretches beyond the length available on the report. However, if the field is in lowercase or proper, then it works correctly using LEFT(). Has anyone else noticed this?
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