Okay - I went against my usually very anal nature (NEEDING to find a way to make it work with a box) and did it your way. I had to play around with it a bit, but I put vertical lines on either side of the Detail band and a horizontal line somewhere hidden behind the word "Detail" in the Detail band. Had to play around with it some to make it come out in the right spot, but it does the trick.

Still kinda strange that the boxes move the way they do...

Thanks much, Terry!

>>I *could* do seperate vertical lines and one horizontal line, but figured there's gotta be a way to do it with a box. I could be wrong, but it seems as though there's gotta be a much easier way to put a box around a column.
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>I've never used columns in the way you are (presumably cf. newspaper continuous columns) and I've always got on famously with vert. lines. I don't see what's inellegant or difficult about the concept.
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>But .. suit yourself.