>>>>You may mark them somehow (I've seen prefixed them with asterisk, or greyed out) if 'deleted'. Or suffixed with "[discontinued]" or some such.
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>>>I agree with your logic that since the items WERE used at some point, they have to be shown. And I will see how to "mark" these items differently.
>>>Thank you!
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>>In some places of our software where we show hidden items we show them crossed out and in the red color.
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>Thank you. If these are VFP reports, how do you set some rows to be crossed out in red color?

I think we used two controls one on the top of another with the print when condition. There is a different way to do it in VFP9 reports, I think, but this is the old fashioned way and it works fine.