Excel Pivottables are especially good for analytical/trend type reports. If your end users already have Excel, there is nothing to buy and nothing to learn since most people already know Excel. Pivottables allow an end user to filter and drilldown on the details or simply view the aggregate totals in the table or in a pivotchart. If you use an external datasource to load the data you are not constrained to the 65,000 row limitation. I use this technique on a daily basis and have loaded in excess of 500,000 rows of VFP data into Excel's Pivotcache.

>One of the reasons I love fox is that it does it all - database, forms, reports! However my users are complaining that previews aren't readable and they'd like more control which we can't give with vfp5. They are mostly home users so don't want to be printing constantly.
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>So we have to look for alternatives:
>* see if vfp7 has enhanced reporting features
>* crystal (but we'd rather not)
>* html (does anyone do this, do they get good feedback?)
>* or something else.
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>I'd really appreciate finding out how others have tackled this issue.
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>Sarah