sliding and subsummaries

[msadesign]

I recently upgraded from v6 to v8 for several reasons, and I was hoping that sliding would be easier for me to handle in 8, but it is not to be. And I searched pretty thoroughly [though the search function in fmforums needs some help!] and could not find my problem.

Basically I normally use the same layout for screen and print by having my fields in the body part not print.

My problem is that the fields in the subsummary, which I want to show after sorting and going to preview, are not sliding correctly, with spaces between each line of text corresponding to the number of summarized fields.

I've messed around with this a million different ways. Sometimes deleting the body then re-inserting it works, sometimes the same with the subsummary, and sometimes neither works.

I suppose that when it does work I am just happening on doing this correctly, but I don't know what, and I posted a few things to help explain the issue, I hope. I can't even count the number of hours I've spent trying to figure out how to get sliding to behave!

[color:red]So the question: Why doesn't the layout slide correctly?

Michael

ps: because I can't upload more than two files, I had to combine my screen shots of 'Preview' and 'Layout'

preview.pdf

Browse.pdf