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Blank Lines

You can print blank lines in any report simply by inserting them on the report layout. In the title, record, group header/footer, or summary bands, Report Builder always places blank lines where you insert them relative to word-wrapped fields. For example, if a report layout contains two memo fields separated by a blank line, as shown in Figure 14–11, Report Builder prints all the text in the first field, leaves a blank line, and then prints the second memo field, as shown in Figure 14–4.

You can control the printing of lines when all fields are empty by choosing Properties Record Layout and setting the Suppress Empty Record/Group Lines option in the Record Layout dialog box. Disabling this setting forces Report Builder to print any record, group header, or group footer line when all fields are empty. By default, Report Builder enables this option, which suppresses printing of lines when all fields are empty. If you use an IIF or CASE expression, as explained above, to conditionally exclude memo fields, you should retain the default.


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