FMP10 Win XP.

I have a report that has various text fields and portals and fits
within 2 pages.

In layout mode some of the text is below the page boundry and not
marked for sliding up.
Changing the last item above the line to slide or not results in it
moving accros the page boundry.

Whatever I do, I do not seem to be able to make the last item stay at
the bottom of the first page and the first item be where it belongs at
the top of the second page.

Is the some simple trick I am missing here.

John G.

Hi, John -

If things are marked for sliding, then the page boundaries in layout
view are irrelevant, because FM decides the actual boundaries on a
record-by-record basis. That's what sliding is for. If you want a
page always to break in the same place, don't use sliding. However,
there are three strategies you might use if you need some fields on
the first page to slide but want other fields to stay where they are:

1. Create two layouts, one for page one and one for page two. In the
layout for page one, put the field you want at the bottom in the
footer. Footers don't slide even if everything above them does.

2. Create one layout, but put a tiny title header at the top and then
a large regular header with the fields that you want on the second
page. Lay it out in such a way that the regular header becomes the
second page. This will look funny in layout mode, but will work in
preview mode.

3. Create calculation fields that display the fields the way you want
them displayed, with one calculation for page one and one for page
two. The calculation could manage the sliding effect itself by
dealing with empty fields or limited amounts of information. With
FM's text formatting functions, you can make everything look exactly
like you want it.

Hope that helps a little.
-J.