I have been struggling with a layout for months, trying to get a container field to slide, and it just won't do it. Here are the details:

FM 5 on Win98/2000 and same problem on MacOS 9.something

Sliding is set for sliding up based on all above, and slide the enclosing part (which is the body).

If I change the definition of the field in question to text, it slides fine, but when it's a container it doesn't.

It seems like I've had a container slide before, but am I mistaken, and containers simply don't slide? What else could be wrong?

Thanks!

Container fields do slide. Make sure that there isn't something else on your layout that is preventing the container field from sliding. In layout mode, do a select all to highlight everything that may not be readily visible.

I've tried that (many times). I've also started the layout from scratch -- same problem. I then started a file from scratch -- same problem. The container just won't slide.

The test file I made has four fields: two text fields, a serial #, and a container. The layout contains title header, header, leading subsum, body, trailing subsum, and footer. The subsum parts sort by serial #. All the container fields are empty, almost every pixel of vertical space is taken by a field, yet there's no sliding in preview! I can email the sample file to anyone interested in looking at it.

I have a huge project waiting for this problem to get solved. Thanks.

Why not post it here? I'll have a look.