I tried it out of curiousity and it had no effect.

I tried to set the font color to red at runtime.
It didn't generate an error, it just simply did nothing.

VB Code:
  1. Private Sub DataReport_Activate()

  2.     rptROEA_Full.txtscore.ForeColor = &HFF&

  3. End Sub

The txtscore should have appeared as txtScore. Since it didn't capitalize it when I moved off the line while I was coding, I was pretty sure it wouldn't reference it.

I too have found the DataReports to be lacking in many areas