>Hi Ken,
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>In this case, I want the *value* of the field to print every time - I just want the background of the value to change depending upon the value in the field. For example, if the value is negative, I want to have a red background; if it is zero or positive, I want it to have a white background.
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>I was trying to do this via the "Dynamics" tab by specifying a condition there to dynamically change the background - but reading the help file further, I have a feeling that this is only evaluated once for the overall report, not on every detail line in the report. Can someone confirm this? And if this is so, is there a way to maybe force it to be re-evaluated for each detail row?

The Dynamics stuff is evaluated for the individual item, not once for the report.

Tamar