Short form does not give you barcodes to each equipment. Where the long style gives you barcodes for each equipment listed. Very helpful when you are tracking the parts used to each equipment. When you scan out parts using the scan gun it asks for the Work Order then Equipment barcode. If you print short style you don't get the Equipment barcodes. While the short will save you some paper if you don't use a scan gun to check out parts to them.
As you say, the long form has a lot of data that is not required, but shows work order comments. Crystal Reports 5.0 can be used to edit the Work orders. 5.0 is an obsolete version of Crystal Reports, off the market since the mid '90s. Many clients have asked me to edit their long form work order using my copy of Crystal 5.0, making it shorter than the "short form" work order, improving readability and reducing confusion. If you are interested I can send samples. Regards, Donal Donal Fleming Fleming Technical, Inc http://www.flemingtechnical.com