[AccessD] Access 2007 question

Jim,

I had assumed Debbie was talking about the Report Footer, not the Page 
Footer.  But in any case, the problem (as I understand it!) is that the 
Detail records are showing higher than desired, not the other way around.

Regards
Steve

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From: "Jim Hewson" <jm.hwsn at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:43 AM
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 question

> This is my understanding of the issue.
> You have data in the footer of the report and then you have relevant data 
> in
> the detail section of the report.
> The footer fills up from the bottom up.  That is if the footer's data 
> takes
> up one inch it fills it up from the bottom margin up.  One inch from the
> margin of page.
> The detail section is populated from the top down.  If the detail's data
> takes up 2 or 3 inches then it fills the page from the top of the detail
> section down.
> There will be a gap if the footer's top margin and detail's bottom margin
> don't meet.
> The page is a constant size so by filling in the data for both sections
> there should be a gap.
>
> To fix the issue you'll need to move the footer's data fields to the 
> another
> section.
> You could create a group to show the detail data and then another section 
> to
> show the data from the footer.
>
> Is that clear or did I just obfuscate the issue?
>