For example, if I'm sorting on a name column and want to add a format string (<a href= "... ) to make the name be a link when viewed on the web page, the sorting gets messed up and does not display the list properly.

Has anyone else experienced this also?  If it's by design, then I request that the design be changed <smile>.

At least in the case of creating a hyperlink, I would have expected that the sorting would still be on the base value of the field (or whatever the displayed text of the link is if the two are not the same), but this does not appear to be the case.