>Ed,
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>I'm sorry. I completely misunderstood your first response. I appreciate your help. Unfortunately for me I only grasp concepts when the user "speaks" slowly. That's obviously not your fault. After reading your reponse a couple of times over I think I understand what you were trying to say. Sorry I got on the defensive. That's stupid and I need to relax.
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No problem here; the wording could've been clearer (like I could have said you have no access to row/column models of printing in the Report Writer.)

It's just that everyone seems to have run into some variant of this problem in the past week or two, and noone else is offering suggestions on an approach to how to deal with. I'm assuming I'm not the first person here who used hardware capabilities in my FPDOS apps to exploit things like resident laser macros and common backwards compatibility who needed to make this transition...