hello!

how can i force a datagrid to display only the first eg. 20 characters?
i would need this for some sort of online faqs in my web app. in the datagrid all the faqs are listed an only a small part of the description should be displayed. when the user clicks on the topic of each listing the full description is displayed beneath.

another question:
same case as above but i want to format a date-field - how to do this?

TIA