My dad has a problem with reports in Access 97. He needs to be able to create a template such that all subsequent reports use that template instead of the default. We've followed through the less than expansive online help and got nowhere. We have a template report and we've set the report template textbox in tools|options|forms/reports to the name of that report. Going by what the online help says, this should be all we need to do. Unfortunately it doesn't work. We still get all new reports based on the original template. Does anyone know what we *really* have to do to get this working?