thanks for your help,
... but i seem to be a bit stuck still

what i want to do is form the graph and print it out. i am using a ole bound control working of the data stored in a table column using the append general command
APPEND GENERAL oledata DATA gcdata CLASS msgraph

this works fine. i place an ole bound control on a report and off i go.... but how do i change the graph type ????? i can only imagine i have to save it to the field as a different class type.
i tried creating a new class with the following:

DEFINE CLASS mygraph AS msgraph OLEPUBLIC
.....
ENDDEFINE

and then put in the append command:

APPEND GENERAL oledata DATA gcdata CLASS mygraph

but it would not recognise the "mygraph" class.
is there a better way to construct and print the msgraph?????

HELP
Jordan