Larry: I'm not following exactly, but since you say you cannot use the DB field because you need to do text substitutions -- can you base your report on a temp table so you can do your substitutions in the temp table?
Karen > I can't use the standard control outright because I can't pre-determine > what text is going to go into there -- I will be printing one or more > "clauses" > selected from a table. And I can't use the regular DB field since I need to > do some text substitutions.
