>>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.
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>James,
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>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.
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>Kind Regards,
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>Mat


You could always create a graphic image to place on the entire page ... kinda like a watermark that sits in the background. It would be tricky to get it positioned just right and you'd have to hack the .FRX file to get the image to span across the entire page ... but it could be done.