# Collection Item Formatting

Sometimes you need to format items that appear within a collection. The way you do this is slightly differently. Namely in front of the item you want to format you need to put:

formatToString&#x20;

After the item you indicate the format, which is the same as previously. So 'C' will change an item to appear in currency format e.g.

\
\{{**formatToString** TransactionDetail.Statement.ADecimalField **'C'}**}&#x20;

Means it will be displayed like so e.g. £123.45 even if what we got back was 123.4550534

Equally a date would be like so:

\{{**formatToString** TransactionDetail.Statement.SomeDateField **'dd/MM/yyyy'**\}}
