I found a few posts regarding this issue, but no effective work-around. A find and replace operation on the data might do the trick, but I have a couple problems with that approach. First, I have no idea how to do it. Second, the use of ampersand characters in citing the authors of biological species is an established convention with which I need to be consistent. I can imagine two approaches that might work. One would be replacing all the ampersands in my data with some string that will print as an ampersand but not cause the same problem, like ASCII or something. Of course, the ASCII code for ampersand starts with an ampersand and iReport might not appreciate the somewhat recursive humor of that. Also, it'd be a real nuicance if the string didn't always appears as a simple ampersand in the database front end. The second approach would just be a work-around that'd suffice for my specific application. I don't need the data from the ampersand-containing text field to be styled, so I could put that data in a separate field. The problem with this approach is that I'd like to maintain consistent word spacing in the report, which I'd have no idea how to do between adjacent text-fields where the field on the left contains strings of varying length. Gregory