>>>>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?

Check out the Dynamics tab in the Field Properties dialog. You can define conditions and how to respond to them. It's quite elegant.

Tamar