>James-
>Yes, indeed (unfortunately) all the items in the band need to be blank. This is a PIA. For labels...Hm. My labels are usually in the band line above (so they don't repeat). I guess you could use a field control that is equal to blank if your "blank condition" is met, or equal to the text of label otherwise.
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>HTH
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>>In "print when", if I check "remove line if blank", the line should be removed and all floating items below the line should move up, right? It's not happening.

This is the kind of precision which is not inherent only to English - I've also first understood it "remove WHOLE line if THIS ITEM is blank", but it actually should read "remove line if IT IS COMPLETELY blank".

And of course, it's done at the field level, because there's no line level. Who said we don't need OOP reports?