>The blank line shows up after the detail lines that printed and only when the description is long enough that the stretch is needed. And only if two lines of the detail band are needed.
>
>for example
>

________________________________________
>Del Monte Green Beans      Regular  79  \
>___________________________Sale     69  / works correctly
>                                          - two lines of detail band needed
>                                          - stretch not needed
>________________________________________
>Del Monte Greens Beans     Regular  79  \
>Low Salt                   Sale     69    blank line after Low Salt
>________________________________________/ - two lines of detail band needed
>                                          - stretch needed
>________________________________________
>Del Monte Green Beans      Regular  79  \
>Low Salt________________________________/ works correctly
>                                          - one line of detail band needed
>                                          - stretch needed

Have you trimmed *all* the fields? Just for grins, can you shorten the length of the first field ("Del Monte Green Beans") in your select statement or in the underlying table? That field may be the problem, instead of the field containing "Low Salt".