>I use cursors too ("Is there any other way?")

Yes. But I'd hate to tell you what I used to do before I discovered them ;-)

>Also, the variable can be reset every page, so that the first record on each page is always the same color (even if you happen to print an odd number of records).

I tried this in that Column style report I was working on. Works great. Better actually because of that reset per page option.

Thanks for the heads up.
Mike