>>"Allstate" on the report, because their isn't enough space for the "Insurance". >I would like to have it print:
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>>"Allstate Insur" (or wherever we happen to run out of space).
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>In addition to the previous suggestions, you could consider establishing a field in the database that would hold the short company name which you would use to print. Thus Allstate insurance not only would always be Allstate Insur, but Prudential Insurance would always be Prudential Insur rather than Prudential Ins. A report using both insur and sometimes ins could be visually ugly, but it depends upon your audience.

We do have a "vendor #" field, which I guess I might also be able to use. I'm actually going to be printing parts labels, so I'd like them to be able to figure out who the original vendor was w/o having to look it up because their isn't enough information on the (small) label.

I think I'm just going to live with a nonprop. font instead. A little uglier, but it solves the problem (and no one has seen how they're going to look except me).

Thanks for suggestions.