To determine whether an item should float, this is what VFP does. It looks at the left and right sides of the object in question, then looks directly up within that left/right region. If it finds anything ABOVE the object, within the left/right area that stretched, then it will float this object. If objects above it floated, but those objects were to the left or the right of the object in question, VFP won't float this object. The stretched object has to fall at least one pixel within the left and right sides of the object in question.

You can trick stretching and floating objects by putting a horizontal line between sections and changing the horizontal line to WHITE or a pen size of NONE so it doesn't print. This allows you to draw a line under several different fields so if any one of those fields stretched, everything below the line will float and not just the items directly underneath the stretched object.

I hope this helps explain it.

Cathy