Print layout that rearranges itself?

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Okay, I'm merely an end user, though I'm not bad at design and basic access, I've got this weird (and badly designed), but mandatory format into which I have to enter data for a specific client.

It has a ton of really unneccessary pages through which one has to wander in order to enter data, and then, several different forms to view for printview.

One of my coworkers had some stuff mysteriously disappear (not surprising with this particular database), and I'm re-entering it while she's gone. So...I'm entering stuff, everything is going well, and then all of a sudden I go to the print view for one of the reports and the front page is showing up as the last page.

What the? Yes, I can get to it in design view, but the way the db designers originally did the db, I can't figure out what happened (as far as I know, no one else uses this db), or how to get it back in the right spot).

Has anyone else seen anything like this?
 
As this is an older post, I don't know as much as some people on the site, but perhaps if you posted a clean version with some dummy but recognizable info in it someone would help. I'll look at it at least. It could be something "simple."
 
As this is an older post, I don't know as much as some people on the site, but perhaps if you posted a clean version with some dummy but recognizable info in it someone would help. I'll look at it at least. It could be something "simple."

Thanks!

I have to pdf the end product anyway, so I ended up just "yanking" the last page up to the first page position. And with luck, we won't use that copy of the db anymore. Thank goodness my project copy was clean, I know it's just a little thing, easily fixed with the pdf thing, but it was bugging the dickens out of me!

If that project dept ends up having to do more for that site, I'll make them a new copy from my "good" one. But I'd still like to know how to get the first page back to the right place without all sorts of fancy messing about in the design page. When I tried just pulling it up to the top position, I couldn't get it there without it "running into" page number two, and/or becoming the header for all pages.

But thanks for helping! Maybe someone has actually seen something like this before. I'm that unlucky end user that always has THE weirdest issue, it's never something the tech can read out of the book and say "okay go to control panel, click this and that, Poof you're done". It's always something that even stumps the experts. I've heard "It's doing what?" from geeks more times in my computer using history than I can count. :D
 
It's always something that even stumps the experts.

LOL, I, personally, am far from being an expert. I think a lot of times, it's just another set of eyes looking at something, or another set of ears picks up on something that jogs the memory banks.
 

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