If for some reason there is no suitable predefined format, you can customize the format according to your needs. For example, let's say you have a report with a list of products, order dates, shipping dates, and product prices. Let's apply a predefined date format and price local settings to these.

Now let's set a format mask for each text component. To do so, select the text component, invoke the "Format" dialog, and in the "Custom" tab create a mask.

 mask

A string or expression that sets the formatting mask.

 predefined value

A list of predefined values for formatting strings.

For the date of order, the format of the mask isyyyy-MM-dd ,ship date-MM-dd-yyyyis. As for the price of the product, the mask isUS $0.00. The data in the rendered report is formatted as shown in the image below.

So you can create masks of various formats