Page Breaks

[Broker Bruce]

I've, obviously, missed the basics of FM4 printing.

For years, I've tried to figure out how to cause a page break when writing on more than one page.

This has to be so easy that I'll laugh all day when I hear the solution.

Thanks

[Vaughan]

There is nothing to figure out. Make the body part of the layout bigger then one page, then set it and the fields on it to shrink with the Sliding/Printing feature. FMP will automatically start a new page when needed.

If you want a "new page break" character like in MS Word, there isn't one. You can specify each record starts on a new page though; double-click on the Body part label to see the options.

[Steve T.]

Hi, BB! It ain't pretty, but I used to force page breaks by temporarily inserting blank records at key positions. I used to flag the records for easy deletion once the print job was done... just remember to SORT first and then add the blanks.

--ST

hmm.. I wonder if you could use Vaughan's collapsing part to use a single "SPACER" record with variable size rather than multiple records as I did. That way you could use just 1 record w/a bunch of CR / <BR> in an otherwise empty field to make that record extra tall. Oh, well... good luck!