Report shows alternate blank pages

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Howard

This is an old one and I know it is caused by something, often just the tip
of a dividing line, sticking out beyond the printable area of the paper.
My question is this.

Is there any way to see where the edge of the page is going to be?
Its very helpful access making my report wider if I happen to drag my line a
little too far to the right but these seems to be no way of telling when I
have gone over the paper size that I have set up. Word shows me the edge, so
does Excel in page preview mode, Publisher does it. Whay doesn't Access even
draw a dotted line or something to save me hours of frustrtaion trying to
find out which control is just too far right. Ans its usually a dividing
line right on the edge of a section separator and so can't be seen.

Oh... and while I'm moaning. I've been using access for years, so long that
my eyesight is getting worse with old age. Why oh why can't there be a zoom
feature in reports and forms so that you can lay out stuff whithout using a
magnifying glass!

Howard
 
It's not that difficult to add together the left and right margin plus the
width of the report, then ensure that value is less than the width of the
paper. (Plus you can use Print Preview to double check)

I've never had a need to zoom for layout purposes. You can select groups of
controls and align them to the same line, and that's normally sufficient for
most of my needs. If I need anything fancier, I manually set the properties,
or write code to do that.
 
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