Are you suppressing the items on the section, or are you suppressing the section itself? If you suppress the section it should not appear on your output at all. Go to report design view, right-click on GH3 and select "suppress (no drill-down)". Formulas placed on suppressed sections still run - I've done that with many reports.

If you don't want to suppress the whole section, your only option is to suppress all items on the section and make them small so you can reduce the section height. It won't completely remove the section from your output but will minimize it.

I have often used formulas to intialise global variables, which are placed in a suppressed header section, and other forumulas to do calculations on the global variables on other suppressed header or detail sections. The formulas all run, even though the sections are suppressed.

Hard to say what's going on without actually seeing your report. You could try emailing it to me (rvink at aut.ac.nz) and I could take a look.

Thanks Dblank, I have got it as good as it's going to get.