Jane,
It will get a lot easier. Did you know you can align across sections? Just click and loop the 'box' around ALL the fields, just like you do in a form. Good way to get headers, details & footers lined up together.

Also, to get a sub-total, copy a field, drag it down into the group, page or report footer and set the Calculation property to COUNT or SUM.

Ask any other specific....

HTH
Barbara


>I'm writing my first report & it seems to be rather time consuming. I started with the report wizard & then modified it. Is there such a thing as size to fit? Report wizard seems to allot extra spaces. When I adjused it, it was just a guess as to size.
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>I'm used to DOS where there were 6 lines per inch. What the wizard gives is fewer lines per inch. Is there a way to have it print 6 lines per inch? Is it possible to align the column heading with the detail - horizontally center the heading over the column? I did use align to align the column headings with each other and to align the bottom edges.
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>Thanks