Laborious alignment

If three objects have the same height and are aligned with their tops will they align?

If you use Crystal Reports for Visual Studio the answer is no if two of them are strings and one is a number.




The middle object in the image is a number, the other two are strings.

How did I make the number into a string? By using a formula field: formula = "$" & totext(Sum ({phonereport_temp.cost}),2).