I have a VFP report writer problem I can’t seem to resolve. The report is an invoice with a line item description field that is marked to “stretch with overflow,” so it may be several lines deep. I want vertical border lines between the columns of the report (item number, quantity, description, price, extended price), and a horizontal border line at the bottom of the page or band only. So that the entire detail band on the page is enclosed by a contiguous border around its outside edges, plus internal vertical-only border lines between columns. The horizontal line must appear at the bottom of the detail band on the last page as well as on the bottom of each preceding page, so I have it in both the page footer band and the group footer band with the group footer checked to “print when” only on the last page (number of pages determined by a double pass).

I can’t find a way to make the vertical border lines (part of the detail band that stretch with the band) extend all the way to meet the bottom-of-page horizontal line consistently. Sometimes they do, but other times a space is left, depending on the position of the last line of the line item description in the detail band, which varies because of the “stretch with overflow.” And the page footer persists in printing in the same position regardless of anything else going on in the report. I’ve tried using _PLINENO to determine position on the page, but it seems to be completely non-functional in VFP.

Can anybody help?