>>>Ed has you on the right track... I have a reporting sytem with over 200
>>>reports and I've beat myself up with scenarios like this but always managed to
>>>make them work with regular Report Writer.
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>>Reminds me of something >L< said in an Inside Visual FoxPro article a couple of years back (paraphrasing):
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>>"I used to like being known as the woman who could make the Report Writer do anything. Now I like being known as the woman who wouldn't try to make the Report Writer do anything OLE Automation could do better..."
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>I've read it too. Nice phrase but you know in real world it doesn't look as absolute truth. I mean that having to tell a client that s/he should have Word installed just to run some Foxpro report will at least create negative perception.

Exactly Ed! And for me, my client are internal. I already fight a never ending battle about "Yes, FoxPro is the best tool for our needs" So by using the Report Writer for 99.99% of our output needs, I prove my point without wasting my breath.