I need help designing a very detailed report. Lots of problems here.

The layout is grouped like this:

Company A
Address
Industries
Street Address Mailing Address
Executive Name
Job Functions
Update Notes
Seminars Attended
Staff Contacts
...

Executive Name
Job Functions
Update Notes
Seminars Attended
Staff Contacts
...

Street Address Mailing Address
Executive Name
Job Functions
Update Notes
Seminars Attended
Staff Contacts
...

Company B
Address
Industries
Street Address Mailing Address

Problems:
- Address is multi-line and could be 2-5 lines.
- Industries, Job Functions, Update Notes, etc... are in seperate tables and there could be any number of each.
- If the page detail is from Update Notes on down then there doesn't seem to be a way to have it print all the update notes, then all the seminars. At best I can show all four then the next four.

Whatever solution I come up with has to be portable to a client server environment.

To this point I've accomplished the formatting by using UDF's that are called from a select statement on VFP tables. The UDF's format the data into one long string that I just drop on the report. It looks great except the UDF's slow it down incredibly and they have a limit of 254 characters.

So! Any suggestions? Am I using the wrong report writer? What other report writers are there that can handle VFP tables now and SQL server data later? Are UDF's a good idea? Is there a way to force select...sql query to return a memo field that isn't already in the table you're querying?

Thanks in advance!

paul