Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Apr 9 15:31:10 CDT 2009
Replace the "@" with your desired date format and create the Format string as for a numeric field i.e you need four formats: "PositiveValue;NegativeValue;Zero;Null" so something like: mmm d yyyy ;;;"Date worked"[Red] Cheers, Stuart On 9 Apr 2009 at 9:20, Rocky Smolin wrote: > He also wants to extend this technique to text boxes that already have a > format. For example, the 'Date Worked' field has ddd d-mmm-yyyy for a > format. If the field does not have a date he'd like the words 'Date Worked' > to appear in red. But if I paste @;"Date Worked"[Red] into the format > property it'll override the date format when there's a date in the field. > Any way to finesse that one?