@kautuk_sahni - thanks for checking in - see my reply above. I hadn't marked it as accepted because it wasn't the right answer, but knowing what I know now makes sense to share here.

@KellieGardner - thanks for the reply. I think you are correct about the "status equates with" we had the same idea and couldn't get that to work. As for your idea about filtering out the objects (assuming you meant statuses) - the issues isn't necessarily going to be solved by filtering in or out. ...

Does anyone know of any way to suppress all the custom statuses that equate with a default status in the key of a report. Maybe another. way to say this would be is there a way to create a custom label for a group in the key of a report.  For example I have report that is grouped by status and on th...