Brian Barker wrote:
> At 12:20 25/09/2015 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
>> I have a spreadsheet that I need to print and send to the government.
>> When I print it, I need to print a page subtotal and also repeat that
>> subtotal at the top of the next page. Is there some way to do this
>> apart from doing it all by hand?
> 
> I don't think this problem is very well defined!

That's real life, unfortunately. :)

> As has already been hinted at by another responder, the first question
> is: is the number of items on each page fixed (whether or not the same)?
> If you want to be able to add entries or expand them - such as would
> spill items over to following pages - then I think the problem is quite
> difficult, but it may be easier if, for example, you need only to add
> material at the end of your data.

Yes I can fix the number of items per page.

> And do you really mean a page subtotal, i.e. the total for that page
> alone? If so, I can't see any point in repeating this on the next page.
> How, for example, would it be of any help to have the total for page two
> copied at the top of page three, without any account being taken of the
> values on page one? Why would page seventeen need to have information
> just about page sixteen and not the previous fifteen pages? Do you
> instead perhaps require a running total to appear (as "carried forward")
> at the bottom of each page and the same value to appear (as "brought
> forward") at the top of the next?

Yes, 'carried forward' and 'brought forward' is what I'm looking to do.

Cheers, Dave

> Brian Barker

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