>>Matt,
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>>The only alternative to your approach within VFP that I have successfully implemented is to insert report objects whose expressions are UDF's in a wrapper program. The UDF's create the formatted child text (complete with CR-LF's) and you set the report objects to stretch.
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>Unfortunately, I'm still on 3.0b :-(. Most of the user will be using Win3.11 for a while still...
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>I've been waiting for report object.. Alas, I must still wait. :-(
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Matt,

I didn't mean OOP objects, I meant FRX objects. You can do this in 2.6 even. Place a report field in the detail band. Mark it to stretch and include as the expression ChldList(1). Add another below it for ChldList(2). Then create a function or PRG called ChldList that gets the numeric parameter and returns a formatted list of either child records for the current parent.

Down-side is you must use fixed-width fonts for these objects to get any columns to line up.

Randy