>Mortimer,
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>>(1) My main reason for not using Crystal reports is that I cannot call VFP functions from the Report that are in a MyFunctions.PRG with SET procedure to MyFunctions.
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>Though I've created many reports, I've only encoutered few circumstance where I wanted to create functions. You can create your own functions in Crystal Reports in either the Crystal language or VB. You can also can use functions (methods) in a COM object (though i've never done this myself). So in fact you should be able to fire a VFP function in Crystal reports.

Actually, CR doesn't use VB. They use what they call "Basic Syntax". However, they have copied VB pretty closely.