Thank you for your reply. However, adding the item number to the description is not a solution. It is already a separate field when you set up an item so why is not reportable as it is?? It makes no sense, and as I mentioned it does get reported as it should in an inventory report. The reason I need it is so I can export the information on an invoice (which QB doesn't support at all) or in this case a sales report to a third party shipper. They need to identify each item by the actual item number (SKU), not a concatenated field containing irrelevant information that no one would set up in an ordering system. Products are set up and sold using a unique identifier, the SKU. That is what this item number is so why cannot it not be extracted?? I will send this as a 'product suggestion' but really it is a bug and should be fixed.