Lou this was one idea for resolve your problem.

HTH

>Your suggestion did not work as is but a variation of it did. I had to remove the CHR(10) and was able to shorten the third paramater of the AT to just use the 10th occurance of the CR.
>
>Regards, Lou
>
>>>I created a report with report designer. One field is a memo field which can obviously be quite large. I want to limit the number of characters that will print to keep the field from going across multiple pages.
>>>
>>>If I were printing manually I could use the mline function and a loop to just print the first N lines of the field. But how do I do something similar with report designer running against a table?
>>>
>>>Regards, Lou
>>
>>Lou,
>>to limit number of lines try this:
>>

n_lines = max_lines_to_print
>>? IIF(MEMLINES(your_memo)<=n_lines,;
>>               your_memo,;
>>               SUBSTR(your_memo,1,AT(CHR(13)+CHR(10),your_memo+IIF(ASC(Right(your_memo,1))=10,'',CHR(13)+CHR(10)),n_lines)))