>"You can try to solve this on the level of the data. Make account as a single record, 2 or more items for that acocunt - in different additional fields or just collected into the single multi-line memo. So instead of grouping you will have entire account in a single detail band."
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>What I think I'm asking is, using Report Writer, in "Data Grouping: Start group on a new page when less than 0.000", 0.000 could be different on each page, depending on how many lines I need for that particular acct. When I'm ready to start printing the account, I know how many lines I will need (when I created the table, I counted the number of lines per account). How can I use than information? It was easy back in the old days, when we didn't use report writer. If I knew I was starting a new account, I knew what line I was up to, and how many I needed to print. If I didn't have enough, I would eject to the next page.

It's feasible, though not easy. You actually know the size of each line, so you can put "when less than {rowheight}*alias.numberoflines". Row height can be measured in several ways, including trial and error, opening the .frx and reading the .height of the band etc, whichever serves best. Keep in mind that units in .frx are 10000ths of an inch (or 1000ths?).