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Creating and managing layouts and reports
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4. Click OK, then click Done.
Notes
• To show or hide page breaks in Layout mode, choose View menu > Page Breaks.
• The pagination changes that you make appear only in Preview mode and when you print.
• If your layout is set up to print records in columns and you’ve specified to print records down
the page, if you choose Page break after every <value> occurrences, FileMaker
Pro
starts a new column (not a new page) after the part when you preview or print. If the column
setup is to print records across the page, the specified page break starts a new page. For
more information about printing records in columns, see
Setting up to print records in
columns.
• If the body or other layout part is too large to fit on the printed page, FileMaker Pro displays
a page break as a heavy, dashed line on the layout to show where it will divide the part
when you print. To fit more on the page, you can set sliding options to shrink fields and the
enclosing part if the fields contain variable amounts of information. See
Removing blank
spaces in printouts.
Related topics
Inserting the date, page number, or other variable onto a layout
Inserting merge variables onto a layout
Reordering layout parts
You can change the order of only the body and subsummary parts; other parts, like the header and
footer, must appear in a specific order, so they can't be moved. For example, move a subsummary
part above the body to see subtotals first.
To Select
Start a new page before printing the contents of the
selected part (for example, to print a trailing grand
summary on a new page)
Page break before each occurrence.
Start a new page after printing the contents of the
selected part a specified number of times (for
example, to print five records in the body, and then
start a new page)
Page break after every <value>
occurrences, and enter the number of part
occurrences that you want per page. (The
default value of 1 prints one part occurrence
per page.)
Reset the page number to 1 after the selected part
prints (for example, to start page numbering after a
title header if you want it to serve as a cover page)
Restart page numbers after each
occurrence.
Allow the contents of the selected part to be split on
different pages, printing a portion at the bottom of
one page, and the rest on the next page.
(FileMaker Pro won't split the contents of a part
across two pages unless you specify this option, or
the height of the part won’t fit on a single page.)
Allow part to break across page
boundaries.
To keep the portion of the part that will not fit on
the bottom of the page from printing at the top
of the next page, also select Discard
remainder of part before new page (for
example, to print the information in a Notes
field to the bottom of the page and truncate the
rest).