>>Mark,
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>>So you are saying there are cases 'COPIES=1' line is not in the Expr field? Sounds like it is print driver dependent, then. I can't think of another reason the line would be in the field in some situations but not others (unless a person deleted it *g*)
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>>Thanks for the info on clearing lines in the Expr field.
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>The report can be generated to produce 2 or more copies. So COPIES=1 would not be found in the EXPR field. It would have COPIES=somenumber_greater_than_1
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>The developer could have also deleted that line from the EXPR field as well.

After further investigation, it does appear to be print driver dependent. I couldn't think of any other way that VFP could implement COPIES=xxx without sending the report multiple times (and I know it doesn't do that...)

So, I added a print driver for our Epson DFX8000 (big dot matrix printer). Then, I tried to print a report to it (using standard print options dialog box), set copies to '3' and got the following dialog:

This printer cannot support this many copies.
Number of copies will be set to printer maximum of 1.

Anyway, this is almost useless trivia...I suppose (but I don't know) that most laser printers and ink jets support multiple copies. It does convince me to leave my print report routine the same (doing a loop to print multiple copies).

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Do you regularly go to the monthly VFUG meetings downtown? I have been curious about going, and have wondered what the meetings are like and what kind of turnout there normally is.