>Hi Don,
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>the ObjProperties parameter is coming from the Reporting engine core. So you won't find where the .Text property is being populated. If it is a numeric value you can use the .Value property and covert it to text and assign it to the .Text property yourself, to override the "****" value. Remeber to set the .Reload property to .T. so the Reporting engine will use your updated value.
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>FYI, this usually happens to numeric values if the picture/format expression is larger than the field box width and has nothing to do with the width of the actually value being displayed.
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>HTH,

Thanks Bo. That did the trick. This was a number field but there is no picture/format expression. So I don't know what was triggering it, and it never occurred to me that a number might behave differently than text. I suppose I need to create another directive "SQUEEZENUMBER".

:)

Thanks