>>Is there a way to shade alternate lines in a detail band. I want to to this to help visually following a wide report across many columns
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>>Dennis
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>Dennis,
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>Put:
RECNO() % 2 == 1 in the 'print when' of the box you want to use in the detail band.
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>HTH
>Mike
That would give irregularities if you SET ORDER TO in an existing table, a SET FILTER, or, in some cases, a query without NOFILTER. The wizard-generated report uses a report variable instead (incremented by 1 for each record); otherwise, it uses the same basic idea:
Variable % 2 = 1Hilmar.
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