Yes, Larry I saw your ideas for Karen - very inventive. Now let's wait to hear from Karen to see if your idea was needed, or if the solution from Razzak works!
David Blocker David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Lustig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 4:10 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Page and report footers > > However, it doesn't solve Karen's dilemma. From what you're saying it > > sounds like she can't get what she wants, that no matter what she does the > > report footer will end up on the next page. > > > > Or am I misreading it? > > No, that's correct, although under normal circumstances the report footer will > appear on the last page of the report, but above the page footer band. > > Previous versions of R:Base for Windows had a couple of very odd "features" for > reports. First, the page footer would normally float around the page, > appearing after the last regular text. This could be right near the top of the > page if you had a break section that feed pages and had only one or two records > in the section. You could get around this by specifying a "line #" (shades of > DOS!) to move the page footer to a common location on the page, but even that > was a bit kludgy. > > In addition, the report footer would print _after_ the page footer on the last > page. Since I usually use the report footer to show the report totals for > columns of figures directly above, it was very strange to see the columns of > figures, followed by a bunch of white space, then a line, the page number and > date, and only then the report totals. > > So to my mind, the current behavior is correct and the previous behavior was > undesirable. Of course, that doesn't help Karen in her current situation. In > another reply to her I posted the only work arounds I could think of. > -- > Larry > >
