Patrick -

>> I have been looking into how the new VFP report writing
>> generates my existing reports. I notice a lot of my reports
>> will end up with ******** in place of my data.

In addition to what David and Mark have said, the GDI+ rendering of numbers has been tweaked and improved in more recent builds.

There are still places where new-style rendering will show *** instead of numbers but they will be reduced in frequency by RTM.

- Colin