When something is marked as float, VFP looks above the item to see if anything stretched. However .. it looks with blinders on its eyes. What I mean is that it only looks straight up from the left and right edges of the particular object -- not the entire width of the band. For example, in the following sample, If "AAAAA" stretched ... "EEEEE" would not float because it does not fall directly below "AAAAA".

AAAAA  BBBBB   CCCCC
DDDDDDDDDDDD   EEEEE

To get around this use a horizontal line to trick the report writer as follows:

AAAAA  BBBBB   CCCCC
--------------------
DDDDDDDDDDDD   EEEEE

As long as the line is marked as float, it will move down whenever AAAAA stretches. And because the line moves down ... EEEEE will also move down because something directly above it floated!! Obviously, you don't want to see the line on your report .. so the trick is to set the Pen color to white or the pen width to none, so it's invisible!