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Strange. You appear to have applied the settings correctly. Are you sure you are saving them to the correct location and picking up the modified template when testing? (You could change a text heading or something just to be sure).

[Edit] on the Transactions screen

First make sure the Properties panel is displayed. If not...
View > Properties
Select the value field you want to change (so it appears with little drag boxes around it).
Now the properties panel should be related to the field.
Select "Formatting" under Appearances. Click on the [...] to open the ...

I think there is a misunderstanding here.
If I understand you correctly, you just want to suppress the zeros, not the line. The easiest way to do this is to change the print formatting of the quantity and value fields. There is a tick box "Suppress if zero".

A bit late I know but it may help...

You definitely want to run in a terminal services setup, but that doesn't necessarily mean investing in "proper" Terminal Server. You can run multiple sessions on a Windows 7 desktop with appropriate software. I have a client that has 20 users on a Windows 7 PC ...

Yes, it does. As you say it is horribly inefficient though. It's a shame there isn't more user control over the underlying SQL.

I need to add the date of the last communication with a customer to an aged debtors report. Of course if I use a regular join to the contact_history table for this I end up duplicating the financial records by the number of communication events.
Using regular SQL this could be done with a subquery ...