Thanks

>Simon,
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>>On further reading I found the Format/Parse methods of the Binding which appears to me to be designed for exactly the situation I described. Is there any reason why I could not use these events to morph data form a datatable column as it is displayed in either the Listbox control or a Datagrid?
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>There's no limitation in using this feature with MM .NET.
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>Regards,