From: Malcolm@indaal.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <45931053$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com>, Steven Green   
    writes   
   >> but am still at a loss why the sorting of the records below the group band   
   >> level is happening at all.   
   >   
   >that is the default behavior.. once you place a group, the rest of the data   
   >is sorted by field, left to right..   
   >   
   Thanks, Steven. That explains the behaviour I'm seeing.   
      
   And thanks to all the others who responded. I've taken Anders advice and   
   added an autoincrement field which produces exactly the result I wanted.   
      
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   Malcolm   
      
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