>
> Well, if you really need it, you can do it. I can think of these

two ways:

>
> 1. Use some UDF
>
> 2. multiple value by 100, cast as integer, cast that as char,

insert

> decimal point at 3rd place from the end of string. This would look
> "very" ugly, and still need some string UDFs, but it would work

If its ugly. . . well thanks but no thanks. I'm already doing it in
Delphi with format('%10.2f', [RealNum]), I was just looking for
a "more streamlined way"

>
> I still don't understand what would you do with such string values?
>

I displaying the value in a StringGrid.

dixon