There are situations where certain fields in lists or libraries need to be hidden or displayed according to the permission level of the logged in user. Since there is really no out-of-box way to assign permissions to fields, here's a way to do it using conditional formatting in SharePoint Designer. This is my favorite SP Designer trick, that I discovered a few months ago. See my reference ( Ian's SharePoint Blog ): In this example, the field called "Priority" needs to be hidden from everyone except for those users who have rights as approvers on this custom list. Also, there is a field called "Audit Date", that only approvers need to be able to edit, but other users (even those with edit rights) should not be able to edit this field, and everyone can see it. Doing this entails creating custom forms for all three forms (NewForm, DispForm, and EditForm) in the list. Here goes... 1. To keep this simple, create a custom list called "Policies" ...