Patti: Wow! I have no answers for you, just want to say that if RBTI ever gives out an award for the "biggest" report ever, I think you won!
Just thinking off the top of my head -- if there is by any chance a limit on this, you could go a totally-unrelational route and load your variables into one-row, multi-column temp tables and locate the data as DB Labels instead. The programming would NOT be fun, but if there is a limit preventing you from locating variables.... Karen > Is there a limit to how many objects can be placed on a report? I'm > creating a report that looks like lotsa little spread sheets with percentages > of > the totals for each line item. I was only about 30% of the way thru defining > and plotting them, when I previewed it and the variables stopped displaying > all together. Only the shapes and actual columns showed up. I took about 15 > lines off the report, hit preview and everythingl appeared ok again. At this > point, I had about 336 objects in the detail section. It got ugly when I had > about 550 objects. As I said, I was only about 30% of the way thru with > 550. > Thanks, > Patti

