Ed,

Selecting data and building reports is over half of my job. It's a good thing I like doing it!

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>Thanx Cindy and Cetin for the info.
>Your replies help provide a solution...
>The Report builders in VFP are slightly different than expected. I did, finally, get a work around the problem by creating a view properly informed and building the report based on the view with band group on shipt. Nicely, my relations held for screens, etc.
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>Building a report should be as easy as building a form (then again, I don't build many reports).