>I'm still confused then. If you field is stretching to match the height of the data, why do you need to shrink anything?

I'm trying to reduce the gap that exists between the bottom of the first line's characters and the top of the 2nd line's characters. For example:

Acme Health Care Center,
Asthma Center

There exists a wide gap between "Acme" and "Asthma". When you have two separate objects, you can overlap the layout so that you don't have as much dead space. With automatic wrapping for a single object, you lose this capability.

This is a *very* long report and the user wants to scrunch vertically as much as possible.

Does that help to clarify?