I had suspected that it was a printer issue for a while. I was too lazy to look into it until your post.

Did you have SP1 beta installed when this was happening? If it is not corrected in SP1 beta it should be reported to MS.



>WOW, you were 100% right.
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>THis is on a lap top and I had several different printers that I use depending on where I am.
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>I deleted all printers except the one I am using now.
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>When I click on Data grouping now it loads within 1 or 2 seconds!
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>THANKS
>Joel
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>>My dialogs in the new report writer were also very slow (~20 seconds delay).
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>>I move between a few offices and I have a lot of network printers. I just cleared out 5 >network printers from my computer and now the dialogs come up with no delay.
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>>I like the new VFP report writer, but for some reason when I select Data Grouping (or Properties) that is slow to load. Takes about 16 seconds to load everytime.
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>>Is that normal?
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>>I know it is a very different Report writer than before and this just may be one of the items that will get fixed in SP2????
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>>Joel