I have been writing Basic Code for over twenty years. I have been through the snarly mess of the origional ISAM files in Proffesional Basic (DOS) and all of the VB upgrades(?). I have used CR(4), CR(4.5), and now CR(7). Is it just me or is it getting harder and harder to make something simple work? Crystal Reports has given me more problems than I care to enumerate upon, but I hesitate to jump ship and use something else. Is anyone aware of a simple way to output formatted data to a printer without all of the overhead of CR? I would love something as simple as "Lprint Using FormatString$, DataType" I do not need images, fonts, fancy calculated fields, colors or anything other than "$", ".", Numbers and text. My data source of choice would be arrays of data declared as their specific type, but that seems to be a bit out of vogue. How about something simple like just printing a Data Bound Grid in WYSIWYG like you can do in ACCESS? What about printing a form in WYSIWYG? I hope that I have just missed something in all of the documentation that I have read. If so, a little help in pointing me toward this information would be wonderful. If not I would love to hear some similar complaints!

Hunter