Martin's experience fits in almost exactly with mine. I would therefore like to add my vote for Stimulsoft Reports which is reasonably priced and has a good royalty free end user designer that can easily be made to look like part of your application and which you can customise to hide stuff that might confuse them or give them the power to cock something up (e.g. the code behind the reports). The new version has increased in price but it would take years to write it myself so buying it for a fraction of the cost makes a great deal of sense. You might need to train users in using the designer if they are not familiar with that sort of product, but hey that sounds like a chargeable extra to me :-) Chris Bray

I concur - customers are thick... I swear this is true - I had a customer for a software product phone up for support. He was absolutely *furious* because he could not get a report for the 31st April!! Chris Bray