>I'm needing to concatenate records together into a large string which I will reprint at the bottom of my report. I thought I was clever in planning to do this as a report variable, but it seems report variables can only be numbers....
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Report variables can be strings too...

I would initialize a report variable and then in the report, call a function from the detail band that does a

vMyString = vMyString + SourceTable.Field

and then place vMyString in the footer.