>Nabil,
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>I have done a lot of work with Crystal Reports v7 ( not ready to upgrade to v8.5 quite yet).
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>Use the "standalone" Crystal Reports Designer to create your reports, but use the ADO - Fields Only option with a TTX file. Then use the RDC inside of VB and import the report that you have already created.
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>Note: This is extremly important when setting up the printer, you cannot select the System Default printer from the RDC, but you can from the Reports Designer. I believe this is corrected in v8, but is a real problem in v7.
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>I placed more informtion on this here:
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>http://www.vbcity.com/forums/topic.asp?tid=94
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>I placed a service call to Crystal Decisions and talked to them about going to the Unbound Fields option in v8+, but they recommended that using TTX files is much better.
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>It is really quite simple once you try a few times.
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>Hope this helps,

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