Cathy,

Thanks. I haven't used VFP 9 specific features much yet, so I'll have to study the reportlistener capabilities.

In the meantime though let me try to describe this better, and what I did since I wrote this.

At first I was trying to do this with label objects, but they don't have stretch with overflow.

So then I tried it with a text object - once I did this I had a different set of problems. I checked stretch with overflow for the object. I put the top of the object in the page header band, and it extended through the detail band and slightly into the page footer band. I want the object to run from slightly above the detail band and then to just about even with the bottom of the detail band.
For the page header band I had 'constant band height' unchecked. (I think I read that in order for stretch with overflow to work I had to do this?)
So now I don't have the problem with the detail band too large. Instead my problem is that the page breaks 3 times with 20 items in my detail band,
(and the whole object prints on each page)
whereas if I don't have stretch with overflow I get all my detail lines on one page (which is how it needs to be)

I don't know if this description changes anything or whether I will still need the reportlistener?

>My only suggestion is to use a reportlistener. You could add some type of placeholder object in the page header. Then in the reportlistener, you could override the render method and use GDI+ to write the text manually. The FFC Class library has a class full of wrappers around GDI+ API calls. There's also a project on VFPx that has GDI+ classes to use. It's not a simple solution .. but it is possible.
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>>I have to build a Bill of Lading Report form according to the customer's layout.
>>On the right most part of the BOL there is legal text, in a column, that runs down the right side of the page. It starts above the detail area and ends below the detail area.
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>>If I put it in the page header then the page header is way too long, and the report errors out and says that the detail band is too large.