>thanks for your help, but i have checked these settings and they are set to print only one copy.
>the preview only shows one page and the table it is reporting on only has one record in it.
>am i going mad???
>
>Jordan

Does your report have a memo field in the page header that's set to "stretch with overflow"... I did this once and the report just printed over and over and over and over and ... you get the idea :)

HTH