I have encountered a puzzling problem formatting a mailing labels report. It has five text boxes : Personal, Body, Street, PostBox and Suburb+State+Postcode - for all of which the CanShrink property is set to Yes. On formatting, if the Personal field is empty the Body field does not move up, if Body is empty the boxes below do not move up, but if Street is empty then the fields below that do move up. The report is based on a query with Iif functions in each field which yield "" if there is no incoming data. From testing with VarType I find that both the top two fields, if empty, contain a NULL, but entering such as 'If Null then height="0"' into the report field source has had no effect. It is not a serious problem - I doubt that my client, a charity, will grumble, and the resultant labels are good enough for Australia Post - but it is annoying me that I cannot get them neat with all fields closed up. I would be interested in anything anyone could suggest. I am using Access2K on Win2K.