Sergio,

I believe the more normal view of shapes on reports is to be able to do things like draw boxes around the data output fields, not hide them, so I'd have to say this is by design.

>>I'm not too sure I see the point of putting an opaque rectangle over the top of printed output.
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>Did not argue the point of having it this way, but weather it was implemented like this by design (of VFP engine) or
>or it is simply bug. (Although, someone might wanna hide part of detail band by placing shape on top of it and end up discovering
>that it just did not work {g} )