>Craig,
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>Talk about thread drift...I poke my head in here and its on Crystal <g>
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>There more I hear about CR, the more I want it. I really would like to see a demo of it somewhere. I'm most curious about how it appears to the end user, and whether it has the ability to preview reports on the screen.

Absolutely. It gives them drill down, search and lots more capabilities. They can even zoom to 400%.

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>Sub-reports sound cool. If I understand correctly, it would make it a piece of cake to pull together information from several tables for things like summary pages (where there may be more than one summary section).
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>And COM components, too? hmmm...
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Yup. I highly recommend it. If you go out and buy a copy, just make sure you get the Developer Edition.