>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?

I do that commonly with pdfl library with my own scripting
commands. (XFRX Scripting/PDFL automation class)
Fixed parts of preformated text can be kept in excel or in
custom formated txt files and then shown in resulting PDF exactly
as they are on original form.

Currently I am developing reporting tool which will do this kind of tasks extremely easy / completely visually.
(WYSIWIG design of multipage documents + fully OOP reporting + scripting)

If you own XFRX licence then your next task like this will be no-brainer :)

As for you current task; If it is one contract at the time to be printed,
then excel automation with predesigned template might do the trick.

HTH