>John,
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>The way I'd do this is to use one of the cursors, create a report and use quick report, do NOT add the table to the DE and do NOT add the alias in the dialog. This way the report will work for whatever the current alias is. Some conditional field code can handle the extra field.
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Thanks Dave,

Your reply headed me in the right direction!! I did as you said, and although it didn't do exactly what I wanted, it did print correctly without anything in the DE, and printed from whatever ALIAS was selected. Well ALRIGHT!!:D But why didn't my previous report work? Well, I looked for any supperficial diffs in the DE of both FRXs I had made...No diff...in the fields...no diff...So then I opened up both reports (use form.frx) and browsed them, I noticed in the report I was having trouble with that in the ENVIRON column it had a F at the top but a T at the bottom; whereas in the report that worked it had F both at top and bottom in the ENVIRON column...So I changed the T to F and the troublesome report works!!:D

So thanks to all that helped me out on this!!:)