When an item is marked as "Remove line when blank", it looks horizontally across the page to see if anything else is printed within the same horizontal area. If something else is there, it doesn't remove the line. So if you have items that are overlapping, that may be the cause of why you are seeing extra blank lines.

Cathy


>Hi Cathy,
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>No, the report is not in columns, however I have six report fields in a variety of positions in the detail band - all overlapping and on top of each other.
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>As the report is generated, I require the 'Remove line if blank' to ignore the field if it is empty in combination with the "Print only when..." expression so that only some fields are output at any one time.
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>My future plan is to have an image box, but at presentthat just aggravates the problem.
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>Any suggestion would be most appreciated.
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>Regards...Rex