Comments on: Formatting Phone Numbers In Crystal Reports

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:58:29 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I have been trying to teach myself Crystal and this was very helpful in pointing me in the right direction. I tried the formula above as well and it did not work for me. This is the formula I used:

“Fax: (” + {location_mstr.fax}[1 to 3] + “) ” +
{location_mstr.fax}[4 to 6] + “-” +
{location_mstr.fax}[7 to 10]

It even adds a nice label in there for ya!

By: bob4fit

bob4fit — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:38:21 +0000

Good tip. It was as simple as can be. You saved me some time. I appreciate it.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:08:00 +0000

Thanks for this formula, it really helped my reports! It’s weird that there isn’t a more straightforward way to do this in Crystal

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:07:03 +0000

Hey Louise,

That is odd that this formula wouldn’t format the phone number for you. It’s a pretty standard formula as far as I understand.

The only potential issue I can think of off the top of me head would be that maybe the Picture method isn’t supported in Crystal Server 2008. I don’t know enough about the package to either confirm or deny this.

I’m not trying to insult your intelligence, but did you swap out the ‘table.field’ with the name of the table and field that contain the phone number value? I’ve made simple oversights like this myself countless times.

By: Louise

Louise — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:22:51 +0000

I am trying to teach myself how to do some basic things in Crystal. I have created a table, but the phone numbers need to be formatted. I have tried the formula above, but it is not working for me. I have Crystal Reports server 2008.