Hi encoduane
This might see a bit crazy, but it's worked for me in the past.
Create a formula that contains your dbase field.
In some instances Crystal seems to handle this much better.
I would suggest a slight modification to what Sastry has suggested by including a check that looks at the length of the field.
So if your field width is 15 charcters wide on your report, but the data returned from the dbase could be longer, decide on a consistent point you wish to break the contents, eg at the "/kg H2O" point.