Ellen,
More questions: Are you printing on a laser printer (individual sheets per check) or a dot matrix (tractor feed)? If laser checks, can you fool the printer by pretending they're 8.5 X 11? Do you have a custom paper size set for your particular printer/printer driver? You can see the width (height?) of each band in the right margin, so you can tell how deep the page footer is going to be. But how to calculate the whole page depends on how many detail lines, etc.

Barbara

>Barbara,
>I'm trying to print checks that are 8.5" x 7" long. I've set the detail band to list info from each record for one person. That works just fine. I've set the page footer to list the amount of the check (summed from the records in the detail band) and the person's name & address. When I print this on 8.5 x 11" paper, it works just great. When I change it to custom size, I get an error "page footer band is too large to fit on page". I guess I'm missing something. How do I tell it to start the footer at 5"? How do I set the number of inches allowed for the detail band?
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>Thanks,
>Ellen