>Nadya,
>
>I'm mostly a lurker and this is the first time I've received any stars but I see that you have plenty. Actually, this could be addictive. Maybe I'll start answering more so I can get more stars!

Yep, the best way to get them either give right answers or start a thread and assign them generously :)


>Bill
>
>>>>Brenda,
>>>>
>>>>Create your program that creates the cursor or table. In the report, add a title band if the report doesn't already have one. Then double-click on the title band and you will get a dialog box that allows you to run a program on entering the title band, which only happens once for the report. If you have to do any cleanup, add a summary band and choose the "on exit" to place the call to your program to clean up.
>>>>
>>>>I use this all the time to add extra functions to eports where I don't have the source ode to the programs.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Bill,
>>>
>>>hehe...
>>>
>>>That sure is better than the workaround I came up with for her. I didn't know you could put expressions there (or at the group level, for that matter).
>>>
>>>So she has 2 straightforward options...your method, or putting code in the one of the dataenvironment methods, as proposed by Nadya.
>>>
>>>thanks for sharing,
>>
>>Oops, I tried so hard and not a single star :) How can I forgot about this little trick? :)