>This really doesn't work out unless the only thing on the report is a detail band with the specified detail elements and there is no spacing around it. If spacing is added so you can read the report, the calculations get skewed.
I am afraid you are right. Group headers and footers can take away an unforeseen amount of additional space.
I was also forgetting about fields that wrap.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)