Make the height of the Sort3 Group Footer band 5" and the Report Writer will always check to see if at least 5" is left before printing it. Put the fields in the Group Footer as you want, marking the memo fields as Stretch with overflow. Now add a dummy field at the very bottom of the 5" Group Footer band. Make the expression "" and set it to Remove if blank and Print When .f.

Now when the report prints, it will suck up any extra room at the bottom of the 5" ... but ... it will assume the full 5" when it checks to see if there is enough room to print.

Cathy



>Hi Everybody !
>
>My report design looks like this.
>
>page header
>begin of sort1
>begin of sort2
>begin of sort3
>detail
>end of sort1
>end of sort2
>end of sort3
>page footer
>
>i have to print serveral lines per band
>(memofields with expanding, discount if any, do not print empty lines ...)
>
>i also have to print serveral lines in the summary bands including memofields with expanding
>
>
>example:
>
>thank you for your order....
>
>your spezial discount : xxx
>..........
>..........
>
>best regards
>
>xxxxxxxx
>
>
>i want to keep all the lines of the "end of sort3 band" together most of the time, means printing them on a new page if less than 5 (and anticipate that the memofield is less than 3 inches).
>i don't know , how to do this !