Me too!  I have over 100 reports using the +'s.  A universal fix would be
nice.

I re-loaded a pre-3.0k version and the reports still work fine.  Clearly a
problem brought on by 3.0k.  It affects reports that don't contain any date
fields, so it doesn't seem to be date related.

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> From:         Glenn Kersten, Suburban Library
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> Subject:      Problem with "Limit Field Length" Feature
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> I downloaded and installed askSam v. 3.0 K this evening, and discovered
> an apparent bug in the new version. I've designed a number of reports
> that make use of the "Limit field length" feature, in which the field
> name is followed by a number of plus (+) signs to truncate the field
> contents. Until I installed the new version, this feature worked just
> fine, but now it either displays nothing, or only a portion of the field
> contents.
>
> I even tested it using askSam's own sample database, Reports.ASK. If you
> run the "Field Length" report, only those fields using the "X" character
> to limit column width are displayed.
>
> If necessary, I'll change all of my pluses to "Xs" -- but I have about
> 30 different reports. Is there a fix available?
>
> On a better note -- the date comparison problem (transitioning from 1999
> to 2000) seems to be working great. I needed to convert newly entered
> dates from the MM/DD/00 format to MM/DD/2000, but once done, all date
> comparisons are working fine.
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