I just realized what you were trying to do. sorry!
If I change the formula then I will lose the other part of what I am trying to accomplish. Each po line can have mulitple receiving dates. I want to compare the first receving date to the desired recvg date and say if it's then late else on_time. The other problem is that each po can have multiple lines. THe theory is if one line is late then the entire po is late. I have this part all worked out. It's just that I need to suppress the po #'s that aren't late. I hope all this makes sense.
I have tried suppressing the po field itself and using the section expert but it's been either all or nothing so far.