Crystal Reports for Rational Application Developer Designer Guide

“Crystal Reports” has several formatting properties in the "Properties" view for hiding individual objects. To see these properties, select a report object and go to the "Properties" view.

The Suppress If Duplicated property prevents a field value from printing if it is identical to a duplicate of the value that comes immediately before it in an iteration of the same section.

The value does not print, but the space in which it would have printed remains.