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From
11/04/2007 23:19:49
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01214814
Message ID:
01214816
Views:
10
>Hello Foxperts,
>
>I am developing a report intended to replace the pre-printed service contract forms that are currently typed.
>
>As is common with contracts, there are large blocks of text (a.k.a. 'boilerplate') that need to be printed on the page along with the two dozen fields such as customer name/address/csz/phone/etc. This text exceeds the 254 character limit for a Label's Caption, and using the Field Properties Expression Builder seems to have a similar limit.
>
>What's a good trick to get 2k-3k of text on the page without resorting to multiple labels or fields?

Perhaps a memo field would do for the fixed text?
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