(© Posted: 01 Oct 2008 at 12:33pm (quate) (Ceres) You can use the MID function. Setup 2 formula field called newtext (or whatever) that has the following formula: MID(text string, 5, len(text string) - 4) This will return a string from position 5 through the end. Move newtext to your report. Good luck. Heiptul Answer Re: Remove leading zeros in variable (parameter) window | dont understand exactly what you are tying to do here, butcould you use the Replace function to replaces each zero with nothing? Something like this. Doss that help? Noel