formatting fields to show currency in SSRS

Question

I am trying to format a field for salary and can\'t seem to bring out the currency symbol when doing the formatting. I have tried using the text box field formatter and then

Answer 1

currency number format

  =Format(Sum(Fields!MyField.Value), "C")

Answer 2

Set the textbox format as C0, i.e. currency to 0 decimal places:

This will be affected by the report Language property - set to en-GB for pounds, as in your example:

You can also set the textbox properties, which also gives you the option to set the symbol outside of the report language:

Finally, you can use a string like:

=Format(Fields!number.Value, "C0")

This does change the field type to a string, unlike the other options, which can have en effect if exporting to Excel.

Answer 3

thanks for your help. I have found another solution to my problem.

I have changed all the formatting properties and then entered the following expression:

=CDbl(FormatNumber((CDbl(Fields!number.Value)),2))

Not the most elegent of solutions but it works.