Hi Alex,

How did you get the data - are they coming from SQL Server by any chance? When I just read your message I was thinking about

cursorsetprop("MapVarchar", .t., 0)

(I just opened our program called from the form's Load method to double check). This maps varchar columns to be varchar and not char.

Not sure if it helps, but may be?

>All -
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>So I tried all suggestions so far and of course TRIM and CHRTRAN() work as expected; unfortunately that doesn't resolve the issue.
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>I don't see how the issue is in the PRG that generates the report, as it's called from two places--one exhibits the problem; the other doesn't. I feel it has to be an "environmental" setting (e.g., so SET setting).
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>This is a tough issue to describe textually, so attaching two screengrabs here. One is from a scan of the actual printout, showing the "double dots" issue where EVERY space is replaced by ":". The other shows a "print" to a PDF, where the "field's footprint" is highlighted in grey.
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>Really appreciate any other thoughts... This is an odd one!
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>Many TIA!