Hi David,

>I did think about it, but I can't assume my clients have either Word97 or Excel, and I don't want to make this a condition of purchase.

Natively you can't rotate fonts on a report. This rotated font must be displayed by an OLE field which accesses an OLE server that could rotate fonts. If you don't want to use automation, you have to find such a OLE server, probably one you can distribute with your application. But beside commercial applications, I've no idea which one you could use. Maybe you find one on www.hallogram.com.

Christof