Any workaround for the 22" max report length?

[RichO]

I have a contract full of text and legal blah blah blah that will be 7 or 8 pages when printed. Seems the detail section of a report is limited to 22 inches. Other than putting all of the contract text into a table and running it as a continuous report to get multiple pages, is there any other way around this?

Thanks

 

[smig]

Is there any data in it, or is it a plain text ?
You can create several sub reports that will be 1 page in length each.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

I do not understand.

What paper size do you have that is 22inches long?

what a report does is this. Prints the header and footer, within margins. Whatever space is left IS the detail, and the report then takes as many pages as necessary to print the whole lot. You can programmatically set the font to a smaller font size than the menubar selectors allow (eg 4 pitch)

What are you trying to do - load multiple pages worth of text into a single text box? Just try setting the text box display property to "can grow". That might work over multiple pages.

 

[Minty]

I suspect that the text is broken down into multiple text or label boxes. In which case in design view you reach the page limit of 22" pretty quickly.

I had the same issue with a contract report with lots of T&C's that need to be laid out very specifically. The way around it was was to make each section of the T&C's a sub report of a top level master report.

 

[RichO]

I suspect that the text is broken down into multiple text or label boxes. In which case in design view you reach the page limit of 22" pretty quickly.

Yes, that is correct. The contract contains something like 45 paragraphs of text. I did actually put each paragraph into field in a table with a sortable numbered field to keep them in order and that actually works better than I thought. It takes up 5 pages.