>>Can macro substitution (&) be used in a report?
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>Rip,
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>I am a strong believer in experiments, as Nadya suggests. In the command window I set

abc = [123]

and in my dummy report I added controls "&abc", "EVAL(abc)" and "(abc)" {name expression}.
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>Macro expansion doesn't work, EVAL() and the name expression work.

I found the same thing but I was having some problems getting it to work in complicated expressions. So what I did was just use the "&" for readability then I created a little prg that takes the frx file a makes a copy of it. Then I do find and replace for all the known variables that have "&" in front of them and replace them with the field names I need at any particular time. Then I run the report from the copied frx. This way I only have one frx to maintain for several flavors of the same report.

If at first you don't succeed hack the frx.