>Jim,
>
>This is a public variable, declared in the main .prg of the program, I checked the variable properties and they are set for release at end of report.
>

Perry,

Then change them so they don't release at end of report.

BTW, you don't need that variable to be public, a private variable is visible to the routine that creates it and all routines called from that one on down the calling tree. Declaring a vbariable PRIVATE in the start up program is equivalent to creating a variable that is global to the whole application.