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VFP3.0 Reports Wrapping to New Page Too Early
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22/10/1997 13:19:46
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00056067
Message ID:
00056078
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27
>try telling field3 and below to float (not fixed to top of report).
>
>>Greetings!
>>
>>I have a relatively simple report layout in VFP3.0 that contains a few
>>memo fields. Each page or two contains the contents of ONE record,
>>with the fields being arranged in order down the page, such as this:
>>
>> field1......
>> field2 (memo)....
>> field3.....
>> ... and so on.
>>
>>What's happening is this: If the memo contents of field2 stretches
>>past a certain point down the page, field3 is started on the next
>>page, even though field3 occupies only ONE line and there is more than
>>adequate room to accomodate it below field2.
>>
>>I cannot find any option settings that keeps this from happening. The
>>wrapping does not happen on every record, but rather ONLY if field2 is
>>stretches past a certain point on the page. This is frustrating,
>>since the first page still has about 5 inches of blank space left
>>over, even though the next field to print occupies one line!
>>
>>What am I overlooking?? Any help would be very appreciated. Thank
>>you!
>>
>>Michael Reynolds


Use ALLTRIM to trail the blank spaces. Sometimes depending on your data, the blank spaces may exceed the limit and you will not notice this in printing.

i.e. ALLTRIM(field2) and in the reports , check in the 'FLOAT ' and 'STRETCH WITH OVER FLOW' .
your problem will surely solved.
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