NetworkTrade wrote:

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My mistake; yes you are right - when a control is highlighted then the
Remove button is activated; but when I press that it literally removes
that control.

Strange, when I select one control and hit remove, it removes the
control from the layout, but not from the report. To remove it from the
report, I'll have to select it and hit delete afterwards.

But removing one single control from the layout, shows how this
"enhancement" works. The rest of the controls in the layout are moved to
the left, "over" the controls you've just removed from the layout.

You can then select them (maybe through the dropdown in the property
sheet?), move them, delete them...

My original question is about breaking this group binding that is
established via Report Wizard. There is the big group off all the fields
that is bound together with a yellow dotted line....and then each individual
contro/label is bound together with a yellow dotted line.

This yellow dotted line is what I want to get rid of. Not the fields.

You don't remove controls through this method, you remove them from the
control layout. Select all the controls in this control layout (if you
select one control belonging to such control layout, you'll get a little
"box" to the left of the leftmost control in this control layout - looks
like the "Select Table" box found when working with tables in Word, use
that to select all controls), then go to the arrange tab, and hit
remove. Now you can manipulate each label and control as you wish.

Let's say I really don't need a label (but do need the field) because the
label is obvious to the reader and I need more space for some of the other
labels....I can't remove the label without removing the field too that is
connected to it with the yellow dotted lines....

....that's just one instance of where it would be helpful to be able to turn
off this yellow dotted line feature; and can't seem to find anyway to turn
it off if you have created the report using report wizard....

I think that is how the Remove button is supposed to work.

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Roy-Vidar