I have a Crystal Report XI report that displays a memo data type field across multiple lines and the background color is present on all lines.

I also have a Crystal Report XI report that displays a string[500] data type field across multiple lines and the background color is present on only the first line.

I want the color present on all lines. How can I get the color on all lines of the string data type?

Right click yoour mouse on details, choose SectionExpert, select Color, X-2 

if IsStringDataType('ColumnName') then crSilver else crNoColor

You need to write IsStringDataType function to return true or false

What/where is details ?

Right click yoour mouse on details

I have not done any of the following and don't know how to do these

if IsStringDataType('ColumnName') then crSilver else crNoColor

You need to write IsStringDataType function to return true or false

Can you offer any nore help here?

Try this way, may it is easy to do:

Select the field you want to format,  right click mouse chose format objact, Chose Paragraph, and in Text interpretation, select HTML Text

So here you can use html to format your data now. you need to format your  data before bind to crystal report

for example:

select "<font color='red'>ABC</font>" from table.

after you bind it to crystal report, the font will change to red automatically like nomal html format.

Only it's the Group Header background