>>I'd be curious if you tried opening the DBF in Crystal directly (not via ODBC
>>in Crystal) and seeing what that would do.
>
>I think the problem with this is that CR5 doesn't read VFP tables, because
>of the backlink, so ODBC is a necessity.

Silly me. Right you are. I actually went and checked because I had thought I was using free DBF VFP5 tables. They were actually older DBF's from a former version of the product I had. ODBC will be slower for you--it's the nature of the beast because it's sandwiching another interpreter between the input (the DBF) and the output (the report). I'd be curious to receive your answer if you find one. Thanks,

JR