Part Setup/Field Break

[aqn100]

I am trying to make a field automatically extend to the next page in Preview Mode if there is text in the field that is too long to display on one page. I have tried selecting "Allow part to break across page boundaries" option in the "Part Setup..." window, but that doesn't work. It still won't display the information that is too long for one page on a next page. The page has a header and a footer that I want on every page. Thanks.

[ESpringer]

If you want the *same* field to stretch through multiple pages, you need to go into Layout mode and make the Body part several pages long and then stretch the field vertically so that it is as long as the longest likely record will need it to be. Your header and footer (as long as it's not a title header) will replicate automatically on each page.

*However* FileMaker does have a continuing problem dealing with text fields that span multiple pages: it is prone to take the bottom margin size so literally that it often slices a line of text horizontally, so that it cannot be read. Figuring out your line height and bottom margin size carefully can help (if you don't have irregular line height, like extra space between paragraphs or mixed-size text). This is a sore spot many have complained about here.

Alternately, various calculations using the "MiddleWords" function can be used to break text down into lengths that are more likely to fit on a page, allowing you to structure your layout with one field of text per page.