>>David,
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>>Here's what I did. Create a report, in it place a field and then a second one the is below and to the right of the first. I created two variables in the command window, lcLastCust (last customer ID) and llNewCust (T/F is this a new customer).


Note the bolded text above, the vars are created to be visible to both the report and the UDF. The UDF simply sets the logical, there was a typo the else should set it to .T.

The return of lcRet is simply to cause a verification of the cust_id to be printed on the report for testing purposes. If all I neede was the llNewCust flag set, then I would return "" from the UDF faithfully printing nothing.