>OK I see what you're saying now -- sorry I missed the point before. The group/ungroup thing is very problemmatic but all the other stuff would be nice enhancements for the Report Builder at some point, I suppose. Some of them are harder than others, of course.

I've found it in xSource, and it really looks like something that can be tweaked. Nice surprise there - the code is really OOP, not the heavy 2.6 style one finds in GenMenu, Convert or some areas of ClassBrowser. Even the chain-of-responsibility design pattern (if I recognized it correctly... by the tiny scar above left eye :) was applied.

> My only wish in that area is to be able to set the font etc (whatever the properties they have in common may be) for a whole group of objects without going for the menu... pretty much like we do in the PEM window. That would be a real time saver.
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>Well, Fonts I think you can do natively. There is a Font Properties button on the Report Designer toolbar (this one *is* new in 9, and I believe it's in the public beta). You should be able to use it for multiple-selected items.

Didn't notice that - and now that I'm seeing the page setup button there as well, it really is a welcome addition. The previous location of page setup (in the File menu) was probably intuitive only by comparison with other Microsoft apps... but not if you came from FPD :).

>Once again, the rest of possible multi-select "apply properties in common" might be enhancements to the multi-select dialog in the Builder at some point.

Well, since the stuff is there in xSource... it can all be done.