>Hello Foxperts,
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>I am developing a report intended to replace the pre-printed service contract forms that are currently typed.
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>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.
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>What's a good trick to get 2k-3k of text on the page without resorting to multiple labels or fields?
I would do what Hilmar suggested ... use a memo field. You can create a dummy cursor with one record and fill the memo field with whatever text you need. If you have more than one chunk of text to print, you can create more than one memo field.