Bernard,

Outstanding suggestion! All these years I've been doing it the "hard" way.

Thanks

>>Many of my applications reports are in the form of preprinted billing cards, invoices, and monthly statements and I haven't found an 'easy' way other than design/print, design/print, etc. till I get it right.
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>>Of course, I have a copy of the preprinted form to use as a template.
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>There always is an easier way!
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>I scan in the pre printed form and save it as a BMP.
>I insert a graphic element in the report and stretch it to the same size as the original paper form.
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>Then I have all the lines/boxex in the right place and insert fields. For the detail part of the report, I add fields stretch the detail section to the same size as on the paper.Header and footer are sized the same way.
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>Lastly I rezise the detail band to one line and make sure the total size of the form is same as the paper. Usually these are 1/2 letter (8.5 x 5.5 inches) or 1/2 A4.
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>Final tweaking is usually necessary.
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>And of course I open the report as a table, delete the tag and tag2 field contents and in the expr field I keep only orientation info.
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>The users printer driver will have to use a custom size which I set.
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>Regards
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>ps
>You can use this BMP method to create dataentry forms that mimic a paper form
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>Bernard