Thanks for the reply Bruno. I am only trying to solve #1 now…the other two are fixed.
On the open item, I can’t see how to display Rich Text using this approach…perhaps it just isn’t supported. The dataset field has a fairly lengthy entries using mixes of type sizes and it isn’t practical to use CSS the way you suggest - this would only work if I wanted everything to be blue…which I could easily have a achieved formatting the placeholder on the page and then applying plain text to the field.
There might not be a way to do this so I might just have to switch to using text only…IF ANYONE ELSE HAS ANY IDEAS, FEEL FREE TO PITCH IN.