Curious because you mentioned format here. Lately I've been thinking of using things like CDate/CCur instead because it's shorter. I *believe* that can actually change the value (cutoff extra decimals if you use it on the number) so you wouldn't want to do it on things used later in multiple calculations if you needed the decimals. But is there anything negative with just using it for things like reports or displayed final values? Like if I was showing a cost on a report with an unbound field, and just CCur(Wages*HoursWorked) instead of formatting?