Nevermind now, I recreated another rpt and cut and pasted the resultant expression into the one I was having trouble with and it worked. Strangely enuf, they appeared to be exactly the same. But thanks!!


>Is the report Portrait or Landscape?
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>Guy
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>>>>I have a report which it's expression is a memo field from a table. the memo field data can get to 2 pages in length and in the rpt designer when Idrag the detail bar lower and attempt a preview, I get "detail band is too large to fit on page" It looks like the report does not want to span 2 pages!
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>>>Tim I have a memo field just like that on one of my reports. I put the memo field into the footer (as it was remarks that they wanted printed after the detail). I told it to Stretch With Over Flow and Float (so it comes after the detail) and it crosses pages no problem.
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>>I put it in the footer like you suggested but it made no difference.
>>Care to see the rpt and the dbf with the memo?