I see now what you mean. My case is a bit different, groups footers don't take much space, they are 4-5 lines wide. My problem is to keep a record with a group footer, e.g. don't print group footer (or summary) alone.

>Sorry Naomi a bit vague I know,
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>But what i meant was say you were printing invoices in a batch process. Your invoice layout would likely have a grouping on the invoice number. So somewhere in the group / page footer or summary band you have totals for each invoice.
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>In this case we know a page can only have one group (for each invoice) - though we know an invoice may span to more than 1 page but a page cannot have more than 1 groups on it.
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>This isn't the sort of scenario is it?
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>Regards
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>Mathias
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