>>>>FUGPL971RL/EDEROV SYSTEM RACK 2515A00 >>>>FUGPL971RL/EDEROV SYSTEM RACK 2515A00 >>>>FUGPL971RL/EDEROV SYSTEM RACK 2515A00 >>>>##########/EDEROV SYSTEM RACK 2515A00 >writing again to say the alignment when I composed the message is >different then what you are seeing. The '#' represent blank spaces. Beats me. We've tested Fortran incompatibility, Milosevic incompatibility and I finally have to confess I've run out of ideas. Are you quite sure there's no (hidden?) object in the bottom band (group or page or whatever) which got accidentaly pushed to under the split bar in the designer? Try making a copy of the report by copying just the detail and header bands, without any objects below the detail, and if that one works OK, try copying the rest one by one. Or open the .frx as a table and see if there's any object with vertical coordinate between the detail and footer bands - that may be something printing white over your last line. Try moving the first column couple of chars left/right and see how it behaves. I ran out of ideas? As soon as I wrote this, they came popping up, just to make me feel like I lied :) p.s. To Barbara: I'm reading messages thru listserv interface, and I see them in Courier New, so alignment was not the issue.