>Does anyone know of a way to dynamically assign a color and/or style to a report object WITHOUT stacking objects on top of each other and using the print when on each? I have a very detailed 80-column report that the color for *each* column of *each* record is dependent upon the data within, and so currently I have 3 fields for each stacked on top of each other. Changing these fields is very tedious. Thanks for any advice.

Check Dynamics page of the report builder.
There you could define different colors (and not only) for one object based on some condition.
You should use report listener to make these Dynamics work.