Hi Chris,

Check out the following article that explains how to customize how a column is displayed in the DataGrid:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;318581


>Do you know of any ways to format a phone number or social security number in a data grid using data formatting expressions?
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>The documentation shows examples about numeric/decimals, integers and date/datetime data types but nothing for strings.
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>Thank you in advance.