What you are running into is the fact that the report writer looks at the "defined" height of the band to determine if there is enough room or whether a page break needs to occur. It does not evaluate everything in the band to see what prints or doesn't print. It just "assumes" that everything will print.

I'm not aware of any way to get around this.

Cathy



>Hi,
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>I have a group footer on a report with a height of 18 pixels. The height of the field in this band 18 pixels. If the field is blank the line is removed and the constant band height is not checked.
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>On the last page of my report, the last detail line is displayed just before the page footer, and the field in the group footer is blank, which will remove the footer line.
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>However, the report is printing an extra page, with page header and footer but no detail lines, so the group footer must be forcing a new page, even though it is blank and should be removed.
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>Is there any way I can stop this from happening?
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>Thanks for any advice
>
>Steve