I am new to Filemaker Pro 7 - I was using Q & A 4.0 for Windows. On that application, when doing a report, if the text exceeded the field window, the report would expand to show all text data in that field. In Filemaker, the application seems to allow the report to close the gap between records in a report if the data does not fill the Window, but it will not expand to open the window to print the data if it exceed the window size - or will it - if it will I haven't been able to figure it out except by doing a new layout with a huge Window...not really what I want to do...any ideas..

If I understand you correctly, you will want to make your field larger than any possible text could be and then use the sliding feature to close up any unnecessary space. FileMaker don't have the reverse, allowing a field to expand based on contents, only to contract.

Chuck

too bad - that would be a good feature to have