Jim,

Have you tried changing from snaking columns to the other kind on the page setup dialog?

You may have to create the report cursor with three logical columns and forgo using the native VFP columns. Then just put Field1 in the first column, Field2 in the second and Field3 in the third.

>I posted this query a few days ago, but received no response. So I though I'd try it again....
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>Whilst designing a report with 3 columns in the detail band, I have encountered a number of puzzles that I cannot solve, viz
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>(1) If the text (the detail band consists primarily of two variable-size text boxes) is so lengthy that it extends beyond the bottom of the band, the text overflows into the next column to the left. I would like it to go to the next page in the same column it started in. Having read as much as I can find on VFP reports, and talked to as may VFP guys and gals around here as I can find, no answer has manifested itself.