Not sure I totally understand the situation, but here is a thought.

Build a table (or cursor) that is used to display the report. In one field, put you left side information. In the other field put your right side information. Sometimes one field (or the other) may be empty.

The idea here is to design a generic table that will work for this report and all the different situations that you will encounter with this report. When you have that table, you just need to write the code to fill the table for all cases of data and you are done.

Does this make sense?

Joe

>>>Is there a way to create a report in VFP without having the detail band go all the way across? I need the left 4.5 inches for information you would normally include in the header except it takes up 90% of the page top to bottom and the detail band cuts through it causing my information to cut in half.
>>>It's like I need to lay an object on the report that only uses the right half of the page and that object needs to be a detail band.
>>>Dave Carter
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>>Only put your fields on the right hand side in the report designer.
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>I'm doing that but, the fields may have 1 or 100 lines of detail
>if I put the data I need to print on the left inside the detail band then
>my data on the right will be line spaced 7 inches.
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>imagine a packing list with the details on the right half and a peel off label on the left. the data on the label must remain fixed in position but every list will vary in number of lines of detail