>Hi Ed,
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>I'am not trying to stretch horizontally only vertically. I want the page border (solid line border | top, bottom, right, and left) to remain constant. Inside of the page border I want the controls to stretch vertically to accomodate the space set aside for each control.
>

That's simple enough - place the top an bottom lines in the page header and footer respectively, and run the vertical lines through all intervening bands. Mark the controls to stretch vertically, and use relative positioning for the controls in the band to adjust for resizing. The result may not be what you want - other report tools or Word automation might handle this better.

>Thanks!
>Roland....
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I need to use some special characters like copyright symbol and bullets etc in my reports.
>>>
>>>How do I insert them when using the report designer?
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>>You need to simply insert the correct character based on the font that's in use - the upper ASCII characters map differently under different fonts, and without knowing which font is being used, you'll never get it right. Cindy's answer of using CHR() to insert the appropriate ASCII representation is good, but you still need to know what font is in use. You can also use the Windows Character Mapper applet in the Windows Accessories, but (you guessed it) you need to pick the character to insert from the correct font.
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>>IOW, unlike DOS, there's more than one font, and more than one character set, accessible within the WinApp. Your problem isn't that VFP is squirrelly, it's that you don't understand the Windows GDI and what having access to fonts means in the real world environment.
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>>>Also, can text fields be streched with they are within a large report border without making the border move or have blanks in the sides of the border?
>>>
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>>I don't understand - you can wrap a shape around a stretchable field and have it increase in length as lines increase, but the width will be fixed in the report. Report fields stretch vertically and maintain a constant width, using word-wrap to split lines. If your positioning for word-wrap happens to be poortly chosen, then the right side of the encapsulted field will leave blanks to the right, since the native VFP controls don't adjust individual character widths to right and left justify things - if you need this type of capability, you need to look into using automation using something like MS Word to generate your output.