I do something very similar - I just declare a bunch of local variables and give them the values I want before running the report - it's just me, but I stay away from object references when running a report.

>Nadya,
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>>> Does anyone know off the top the most efficient way to pass a parameter to a report?
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>>What are you trying to achieve? Where is no way to pass a parameter, but you can declare local (or private) variable in the calling procedure and use this variable in your report as parameter.
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>Well, that is exactly what I did, but I am not happy with referencing a variable back to a textbox value on the form that calls the report, that's all.