I don't see why there should be any difference between Report variables and variables defined in code.

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>Thanks for you response. Issue has been resolved.
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>I failed to state that I was using REPORT VARIABLES for some of the text. I don't understand why that made the report printing fail as it did - but that was APPARENTLY the problem. I removed the internal REPORT VARIABLES and created them outside the report and it printed properly.
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>Any ideas as to why REPORT VARIABLES would do that?
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>Harry