Mathias,

Do you mean you put Group Footer information into Detail line wrapped with the condition? How does it help to solve the problem?

Also in the particular report I have in mind I have two groups... The second group footer is a bit large and causes orphan footer to be printed.

>I think you could achieve that.
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>Might be smarter ways to do that now with the report listner but one solution i remember in previous versions of VFP was to mark the last record for very group. Make sure that's the last record for the group.
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>Then in the group footer (NOT the summary) wrap the expressions in a double if: IIF(CheckLastRecord(), RealExpression, Blank).
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>The footer is essentially 'bound' to the last group record.
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>I can check the nitty gritty details if i have missed something.
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>regards
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>Mathias
>
>>Mathias,
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>>Thanks a lot for your response. The problem is, that sometimes group footer or summary is printed on a separate page without any detail information above. I want to prevent this, but I don't know is it possible?
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>>Thanks again and appreciate your thoughts.
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>>>Naomi how is that possible? I thought you always have to have something you were summarizing.
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>>>Mathias
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>>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>>Do you know if some generic algoritm exists to always keep at least one detail record on a page before the group footer? In other words, how can I not have orphan group footers or report summary?
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>>>>Thanks a lot in advance.