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Thanks! I will give it a shot . . . maybe two or three shots.

It depends on which version of Crystal Reports you are using. I have no trouble with memo fields in version 9. I use this feature all the time (e.g., suppress if {form.memofield} = ""). That's the improvement for me in version 9, the capacity for including memo fields in formulas, being able to...

No one seems to be overwhelmed by a feature that is absolutely indispensible in my office: tha ability in version 9 and above to use memo fields in formulas (and, hence, to be able to search for key words and phrases in memo fields). For my Federal agency, which awards grants for complex...

Good luck.

Is there a way I can write the query so that I don't have to specify ahead of time how many (or the upper limit) of the parameters I'm looking for? The solution proposed is fairly similar to what I've already done (i.e., defined seven variables, each corresponding to one keyword -- v1 =...

Thanks. I appreciate it. Doesn't this solution, however, force me to define precisely how many keywords I am going to link?

I have a report that allows me to enter multiple keywords and then searches for occurrences of them in a memo field. Here is the language I use in the selection criteria: numbervar counter ; stringvar holder ; holder := "" ; counter := 0 ; for counter := 1 to count({?Search Value}) step 1 do...

A lot of stuff doesn't work. Corel makes a utility that is supposed to convert everything seamlessly. However, like a lot of Corel software, this miracle utility doesn't work.

I have developed a pretty decent expertise with Crystal Reports and have asked my office for a copy to install on my home PC so that I can work on reports away from downtown Washington. However, because I work for brain-dead Federal bureaucrats, they have told me that they cannot provide me with...

I have created a suite of several dozen WP macros that enablemy colleagues to generate a substantial number and variety of customized memos and other documents. The macros have worked through successive upgrades of WordPerfect. However, when I tried to run them under WP10 on my new home...

I created a subreport that established a shared date variable; this variable was then passed back to the main report (where I had already declared the same shared variable) and displayed. The problem was that, if I suppressed the subreport, the shared variable disappeared from the main report...

How about creating a variable that concatenates the label and the field, and then creating a boolean variable that changes from TRUE to FALSE if the concatenated field is a duplicate of the previous occurrence of the field. Then suppress the line if the boolean is FALSE. Then you reset the...

I have subreports that sometimes return no records. However, even if the subreport returns no records, there is a text variable in the subreport header; hence, the subreport will display even if it has no content. To get around this problem, I conditionally suppress the header of the subreport...

Thanks, all. This is extremely helpful. I am still learning and every bit of knowledge gets filed away.

Yes, thanks. I know your suggestion works; I was only trying to get some practice in creating arrays. The basic stringvar := etc. works. So what you're saying is that my definition of the formula is correct, but that I have to go a bit farther and have the array equal something.