Need some help & suggestions in designing Crystal Report

Question

I need to arrange my data in the following manner:
I need to group my data by a field and need to show multiple information for that record at the same row level and then include some crosstab information. I realized that I cannot have multiple information at the same row level for a group.
As an example, please consider that the group field is Name and A and B are two records returned based on the grouping field. I also need to show 'Description' and a color coded box for that record.
And then I need to show the cross tab data for that group.
I need a table something like what is shown below:
                                                          X  Y  Z
A.Name A.Desc A.ColorCodeBox    Var1    0  1  2
                                                  Var2    2  3  4
                                                  Var3    2  4  4
B.Name B.Desc B.ColorCodeBox     Var1    0  1  2
                                                  Var2    2  3  4
                                                  Var3    2  4  4
Where the numbers are some values and X,Y,Z are the column headings and the numbers are some values.
Could you please provide some suggestions as to how this can be achieved? I am using the default Crystal Reports that ships with Visual Studio 2008 Prof. But if there is some other feature available with any other version, we can consider switching to it.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Here is how my table is laid out.
col-1    col-2     col-3              col-4  col-5  col-6
field-a   field-b   field-c        r1 11111  22222  33333
                                   r2 44444  55555  66666
                                   r3 77777  88888  99999
As you had mentioned, I am creating two group headers in my group section where the first group header contains the following and overlays the second group header.
col-1    col-2     col-3    
field-a   field-b   field-c                                                                        
And the second group header contains  the cross tab information.
          col-4  col-5  col-6
    r1 11111  22222  33333
    r2 44444  55555  66666
    r3 77777  88888  99999
And I suppressed the column headings (col-X)  from both the groups using the formula that you mentioned. But here is how my table is being laid out
col-1    col-2     col-3              col-1  col-2  col-3
field-a   field-b   field-c        r1 11111  22222  33333
                                   r2 44444  55555  66666
                                   r3 77777  88888  99999
                                                                           <- blank line
field-a   field-b   field-c        r1 11111  22222  33333
                                   r2 44444  55555  66666
                                   r3 77777  88888  99999
I have already done a fit section and made sure there is no space. Also my crosstab table contains string fields and I am suppressing the row and column totals in the crosstab as I do not need them.
Do let me know if you have any ideas on this.