Tim,

I believe there are some bugs in the report writer related to printing 2 columns. You could search the MS Knowledge Base on this. They may have a work-around.


>I am reposting this question. I guess it got overlooked.
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>Whenever you group a report and set print order in the page setup to horizontal (group continues on next row).
>You will get an empty space at the start of each group.
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>I found that setting Print Order Left to right / horizontal (group continues on next row) will ALWAYS leave an extra space at the start of each group.
>Only if you set print order and records wrap from left to right (horizontal) in the print setup. If you print vertically (group continues on same column) it works fine.
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>I wonder if anyone else has noticed this. If so did you solve it somehow (by hacking the FRX??) or if it is a known bug...
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>This can be duplicated by creating a table
>1) create table mytable (col1 c(20))
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>2) Insert records as follows:
>append blank
>replace col1 with "A"
>append blank
>replace col1 with "A"
>append blank
>replace col1 with "B"
>append blank
>replace col1 with "B"
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>2) Then create a report...
>CREATE REPORT
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>-add data grouping: set to column mytable.col1
>-place 1 field in the detail band with expression=mytable.col1
>-Shrink all of the "bands" down to the correct size...so you can see the space is not created by the bands.
>-File-Page Setup: 2 Columns,Print Order Left to rigth ....(group continues on next row)
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>Anyone else see what I mean???
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>If you do print order and records wrap from left to right (horizontal)
>you will get an empty space at the start of each group.
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>If you do it from column to column (vertical) it works fine no space...
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>I think it's a bug!?