Restricting details area

[John]

Hi

I am doing a report to print invoices on pre-printed laser invoice forms.
The invoices can go on more than one page potentially depending on the
amount of details.

On my report the detail section contains a sub-report due to the complexity
of the detail section. I need to keep the detail section to a certain height
so it fits on pre-printed invoices' detail box. I set detail 'Can Grow' to
No, the detail section remains fixed height and fits on the invoice form but
skips any details that do not fit in the area instead of taking the overflow
details to the next page within the same fixed detail area. If I set the
'Can Grow' to Yes then as you would expect the detail section becomes
variable height and does not remain within the pre-printed form fixed detail
box. How do I solve this problem?

Thanks

Regards

[paii, Ron]

Moving other fields into Report, Page and Group header / footers may allow
the 2nd page to format detail into the same space on the form. But you may
also need to change the source query to split the detail over multiple
report records.

May I ask why use pre-printed forms?. I have always had trouble print
reports on pre-printed forms; and from looking at forms from customers and
vendors so have others.

"John" <Jo**@nospam.infovis.co.ukwrote in message
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Hi

I am doing a report to print invoices on pre-printed laser invoice forms.
The invoices can go on more than one page potentially depending on the
amount of details.

On my report the detail section contains a sub-report due to the

complexity

of the detail section. I need to keep the detail section to a certain

height

so it fits on pre-printed invoices' detail box. I set detail 'Can Grow' to
No, the detail section remains fixed height and fits on the invoice form

but

skips any details that do not fit in the area instead of taking the

overflow

details to the next page within the same fixed detail area. If I set the
'Can Grow' to Yes then as you would expect the detail section becomes
variable height and does not remain within the pre-printed form fixed

detail

box. How do I solve this problem?

Thanks

Regards