Formula Text Conversion and Crystal Reports

I have built a view to create Crystal Reports from. I realized that all date, number, dialog lists, currency fields do not get pulled into Crystal Reports. I made the columns as a formula using @Text(FieldName) however, the listing of the fields in the crystal report does not display the fieldname, but a number (_32). Is there a better way to convert these types of fields into text so that Crystal Reports can read them?

Subject: Formula Text Conversion and Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports uses the lotus notes programmatic column name to identify a field in a view.