>The customer wants the band that prints their purchase order line items to always be the same height, irregardless of the number of line items.
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>They also want vertical separator lines that run through the line item "box" and connect the header and footer boxes.
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>Here's the approach I'm going to try. Any alternative suggestions are most welcome:
>1. Define a report variable to count the number of line items.
>2. Call a UDF in the detail band On Exit expression and pass the line count and another variable by reference.
>3. In a text box in a footer below the detail band put a text box that streches. Bind it to the second parameter in step 2. Add vertical lines that strech to fill the footer band.
>4. The UDF will load the second parameter with the number of carraige return characters required to pad the "detail" section to the constant height.
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>TIA.
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>Frustrated in LA,

Mark,
If you are not restricted to using the VFP report writer, take a look at Seagate Crystal Reports. I just used it for some similar report requirements and it handled it very well.