>Is there a widely accepted conventional method for passing user input from a form to control the printing of a report.

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Thanks all for your input. I believe my question has been answered. All of your answers in some way have the report generator reaching outside of it's local scope for control input received from the user. That's what I figured I had to do in the first place, just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something, being a relative newcomer to VFP.