EASY! Trim string?

I have values in a matrix takin too much space. Since they are just used as the matrix column header, cant i trim it or something. To display just the first 3 letters of the the attribute, and not the whole string? Whats the code for that?

=Fields!Collision_Type.Value thats my field right now.

Please help! thanks!

=LEFT(Fields!Collision_Type.Value,1,3) I believe. Or some variant of that syntax.|||

I believe it should be Mid(Fields!Collision_Type.Value,1,3)

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Yes, you can change it to this to always show the first 3 characters:

=Left(Fields!Collision_Type.Value, 3)

Jarret

|||Thanks for the quick response, this worked great!|||This one worked as well, hum i wonder what the difference is? But they both seem to display the same. Thanks!|||

There is no difference really, the Mid function allows you to give it a starting position and how many characters to return.

Jarret