• Personally, I would use an expression to add the hyphen in then. Assuming your field name is of (n)varchar type, and is always 10 characters in it's original form:
    =LEFT(Fields!Matter_Number.Value, 6) & "-" & RIGHT(Fields!Matter_Number.Value,4)

    Thom~

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