Make Date Field Show In A Particular Format In Crystal Reports?

I am a bit new to crystal reports even though I've been doing a bit of heavy lifting with it.I have this crystal report that has a datetime field.This field has a default datetime of 1753-01-01 00:00. Now I want this field to display only date like "01-03-2011" and also anywhere it sees the default date, it should display an empty string like To achieve this I used this formular (in the display string)

if CurrentFieldValue = DateValue('1753-01-01 00:00:00') then
''
else
totext(CurrentFieldValue)

This successfully changes the default date to empty string. But now I can no longer change the format to dates only.