>>>>Page no. is printed at the bottom of a report.  Before generation of
>>report,
>>>>I wan't to specify 'From Page no.' to ' To Page no' and the Frx must
>>print
>>>>only the specified page no.
>>>>
>>>>The problem occurs during Power failure.  The Customer has printed say
>>some
>>>>20 pages and there is a Power failure or Printer problem.  Now, he would
>>>>like to print the same report starting from 21st page.  How can this be
>>>>achived ?
>>>>
>>>>Thankx
>>>
>>>with some printers, report to printer prompt gives the option of starting
>>at a specific page. if your client's printer doesn't, just print the first
>>20 pages again.
>>
>>
>>Your answer is not practical. Actually one of the report is 500 pages.
>>Say if there is problem after 300 pages, then they cannot start again from
>>the begining. Please think and help me out.
>>
>>Bye
>>
>>
>>
>This has been a perrenial problem, not simply with Foxpro, but any report
>generated by data.
>
>A lot of this depends on the kind of information in the report, whether its
>basically row bound data or more like a document. If its row bound then
>there should be some criteria you can use to restart the report at a
>reasonable place. After all if the report is based upon volatile data then
>the pagination may change from run to run.
>
>So, if you can allow them to print the data based on whatever grouping the
>report has they can judge themselves where to report from and to. I accept
>that this may make for a bitty report but in terms of page numbering you
>could print the page number as _PAGENO+offset, where they can specify the
>offset.
>
>On the other hand if the report is 500 pages long you might think about
>generating it in a slightly different way. Database/Report engines are not
>at their best when handling documents. Word Processors are much better at
>handling documents.
>
>So, if your report is more like a document consider exporting the data or
>using DDE with Foxpro as the server (my preference) into a Word or similar
>word processor. They can then print the report at any page they desire
>with as much control over copies as they desire.
>
>Best regards
>
>
>Simon
>
>
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Before Report writer was introduced one could use _pbpage to suppress the unwanted pages. But, once Report Writer is used we have no control over Starting page no. It think, there is some solution. Meanwhile my report is a type of document where there is no grouping or control over the rows.