Cathy
Thanks for your reply. You got me out of a jam several years ago when doing packing slips and I appreciate it.

I do have your great book and I considered using the technique on page 206, but I have 4 different formats for the stub due to the variability of the data printed (including memo fields). I would therefore have to have field objects for each column in each format times the number of lines on the stub. Wow, that is one biiiiig record. The first technique might work.

In short: put the check in the group header, then create a detail group on checknum + stub that prints in the detail line. I assume that all of the totals will have to be pre-calculated and the stub heading will have to be contained in the detail data for the stub. Is this correct or am I off base?

Thanks Vince