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>>>Actual it was not a label but a field where I entered title for the report. I wanted it to be a label but mistakenly selected a field and then entered in the field MY REPRT TITLE (without quotes). This was causing the Syntax Error.
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>>I still see that once I dismiss the "Syntax Error" window, it goes back to the field with the problem. I even set up an example like yours, and it worked with a field in the title band. It returned with the field as needing to be fixed.
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>I don't know why it didn't work that way for me.

Possibly because you had an ON ERROR condition active when it hit the error.