>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>I need to change one of my reports to minimize asterisks printing in the total columns. Let's take one of the columns, for example. The format of the variable printing the total is "9999,999.99". It appears (not sure because I only get phone calls from the customer and don't see it for myself) that even when the total number is less than 9999,999.99 the report prints asterisks. The first thing I was going to do is to increase the width of the control on the report hosting the variable. But all total controls are so close to each other that they will overlap.
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>>>So, my question is, is it ok to overlap controls on the total of the report? I think physically there is space on the paper but on the report designer the controls are very close to each other. And I am hoping that if I increase the width of the controls, even though they will be slightly overlapping, the issue will be resolved.
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>>>Does it make sense?
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>>Firstly, increase size. Also, you can use 2 overlapping report fields for the same data field with different fonts: when field value goes over certain amount, i.e. it can overlap neighboring field use smaller font. I think your customer will see small font better than overlapping.
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>Ed,
>Thank you very much.

You can use Set Reportbehavior 80, but then you will lose some of the new features.