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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00519730
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>Nadya,
>
>Not necessarily a good solution for your app., but I had a document where this was required and I ended up doing it in Word with OLE Automation - in Word I could set the Widows/Orphans properties to handle keeping lines together or moved so a detail accompanied a footer.
>
>I haven't used Crystal Reports, but it has a lot of additional bells and whistles, and might be able to handle this. You could ask this on UT or to their web site.

Thanks, Barbara. I probably would end with Word too. I'll experiment tomorrow a little bit more. This is for the project, you gave me very good advices in another thread, I'm working on it right now.

I'll let you know, how it would go.

Thanks again.

>
>HTH
>Barbara
>
>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I have a report, which has two groups and looks like this:
>>
>>Page Header
>>Some info
>>---------------
>>Group1 - nothing
>>----------------
>>Group2 - Group header
>>-----------------------
>>detail - 1 line
>>------------------
>>Group1 - Footer - two lines
>>----------------------------
>>Group2 - Footer - nothing
>>--------------------------------
>>Page footer - some info
>>
>>Now, I have a situation, when I have 3 pages with the data and Group summary goes to the 4th page. I tried lots of different values in Start Group on the new page if less than, and I either 48 pages, when the last page has only summary info, or I have ~2000 pages.
>>
>>How can I make this report to print Group summary + one record from the previous page?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
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