OMG, I think I've got it!  It had to do with grouping and some property fiddling
with in a text field.  I hope!  Waiting to hear from the editor!  Thanks
to everyone for your excellent suggestions.

Dorothy

"Kevin Zawicki" <numberjack@wi.rr.com.nospam4me> wrote:
>Does it look OK on screen?
>
>>>>
>I am working with a database with 4400+ entries, each one including a 
>picture -- .gif
>or .jpg depending on when it was entered.
><<<
>Is the picture on the report?  If so can you make a copy of the report and

>remove the picture and see if that is affecting it?
>
>>>> I've been working on this thing for about twenty years.
>Do you mean it has worked all this time and now is not working correctly?
Or 
>is this a new report?
>
>
>Try this:
>Make a copy of the report.
>Open copy in design mode and remove things one at time checking after each

>remove if it was causing the issue.
>(Often I remove half the things first time, then if OK, remove other half,

>etc to try and narrow it down.)
>Sometimes one object can move a lot around...
>
>
>
>"Dorothy Keyser" <dorothy.keyser@email.und.edu> wrote in message 
>news:4d730e0c$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
>>
>> I am using Paradox 11 under Windows 7.  I am working with a
>> database with 4400+ entries, each one including a picture -- .gif
>> or .jpg depending on when it was entered.  I've been working on
>> this thing for about twenty years.
>>
>> I have created a report that seems to do exactly what I want it
>> to, except that 1) when I run the report, I get overprints with
>> some of the fields -- and they don't seem to be the same entries
>> every time I run the report, and 2) when I try to print the report
>> to a printer or to a .pdf, some of the formatting gets lost -- especially
>> the line squeeze and field squeeze formatting.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
>
>