Just to be clear, not looking for an alternate approach because there is no problem. Only trying to understand why there is no problem.
Normalization is not an issue because it is a completely unbound form. It is purposely a non-normalized view. It is pulling normalized data and pushing in this format. Also not looking for any fix or alternate means to present this issue, there are many other alternatives. The question was simply about the ability to exceed 754 controls on a form or report. The answer was not code, the answer was that 754 is not the limit and MS has just not updated their list of limitations. It is something around 1015-1040. The other question was why it worked on the form and not the report. I believe there is not an issue, but dealt more with the process of cutting and pasting.
There are other approaches
1. make each month a subform
2. use a xtab
3. use a pseudo grid table and write to that
However, not looking for an alternative just trying to understand if I was exceeding the limit via code. There are some limits than can be exceeded. This was just a mistake in understanding the limit.