>Have you checked that entry in the book? Maybe you set it up incorrectly? I don't have the book so I don't know.

James,

Yeah, that is the first place I looked. They suggest using recno() and this works well for the detail band only. I was hoping to have greenbar effect consistantly presented across all bands of the report, that is why I created the fGreenBar() function.

Kind Regards,

Mat