>>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.

Got it. Cleared the contents of Expr, Tag, and Tag2 of the .FRX.