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Do reports suck? How to set conditional page breaks between subrep

 
 
Ralf
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      11th May 2010
Sorry for this harsh subject, but I'm so frustrated about reports in MS Access.

I have a report with 9 subreports. Each of those subreports should be on a
new page.
If I place a page break control between those than I have empty pages, since
some subreports may be empty (depending on existing recordsets).
Ok, what I could do now is to set 'Keep Together' to yes, but that requires
that I set the size of each of those 9 supreports to their original/actual
size. But the report size is limited and I approach this limit after resizing
the first 4 subreports already.

I really don't know what to do. Reporting tutorials in books and Internet
are very shallow and the MS help is far from being helpful. It would be great
if someone is experienced enough to give me some hope or at least to confirm
that there is no way to solve this issue. Perhaps there is a complete
different approach to follow?

Thanks,
Ralf
 
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Larry Linson
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      13th May 2010
Marsh is a nice guy and answered your question without a comment.

But I'll tell you that you are correct on one point. Coming in to a
newsgroup where people like the product, especially those who answer the
questions, and beginning by saying, "Your baby's ugly. Now tell me how to do
.. . ." is not the best way to "win friends and influence people".

For your information, I've worked with Report Generators in a number of
languages, dating back to the 1960s, and I haven't found any that are even
close to being as capable and as easy to use as Access reports. I've seen
very impressive work done with Crystal Reports, but the fellow who did it
told me that he didn't find it nearly as easy to use as Access reports. And,
fortunately, there are a lot of people willing to help -- but it'll be
better if you don't take your frustration out on them. <SMILE>

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP


 
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