>Then the report file may have a problem...
>
>open it (with the Report Designer)
>"ctrl+A" the guy
>create a new report
>then paste the whole thing....
>
>(beats redesigning the whole thing...)

That had occurred to me, but what happens to my 14 variables, 2 UDF calls, etc.? Gotta be a simple .FRX tweak or something better than that. The layout is not the problem.