>The client wants the reports in any case. So I put in X hours to create the reports. With no additional time on my part they get on-screen preview. The client is happy with the result. Why should they pay me for another X hours (approximately) and add many kilobytes to the application to display the same information on a form?
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>BTW, I assume you are talking about the use of grids since the client certainly wants to see more than one record at a time.
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Peter,

I remiond you of the title of this thread, "Commonly misused and abused VFP features." My point is that the REPORT PREVIEW is commonly misused. I can tell you that the number of times I and others have dealt with the question, "My report looks great on paper but it is too small to read on screen, what should I do?" indicates clearly that the preview option of the report in VFP is frequently misused.

Whether it works ok in some situations or not does not change that point.

I made no mention of using grids or anything in particular, but I did say that a form could be built that gave the user the ability to see the data they want to see and even give them options to manipulate that data on screen in a interactive report. Whether that sceen had a gerisd or not is not even an issue here.

So, I still say, that the report preview is a frequently misused feature of VFP.