Add one field object to the group footer that is only one line tall and marked as stretch with overflow. Make the expression something like this:
REPLICATE(REPLICATE('_', 30) + CHR(13),
)
This will print 30 underlines and then go to the next line. You can use a report variable or something to count how many detail lines there are and apply a factor for the lines.
Cathy
>I have a report that needs to have some ruled lines repleated
>at the end of a group footer based on the amount of room
>available at the end of the report. If there is litte room then I want it to repeat more times to fill the next page.
>
>this is a proof ticket. The customer need to have enough lines
>to indicate changes required. The more detail information the more lines
>are required. At this point I have made a memo field that is loaded
>base on this information. The problem is I have to use only the lower ascii characters because this goes to a dot matrix printer from windows.
>Using CHR(196)+ does work.
>
>I can draw the line in the report but don't know how to get them to repeat
>based on the amount of detail
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>thanks