First Page of MultiPage document prints blank but looks fine in Preview
I've set up a multi page report/document for my client. Each of the 5 pages has its own unique verbiage and pulls different fields from my DB.
Based on advice from EE I created a main report that has all five pages as subforms. It had been printing fine but I got word this morning that the first page is a blank sheet of paper. The next 4 print as they should.
I first put the report on the screen in preview mode and everything looks perfect. All five pages formatted as they should. It's only use they use the Print... option, selecting all pages to print that this problem occurs.
I suggested as a temporary work around to just print page 1 of 1 in the print dialog box, but that prints a blank sheet of paper also.
I verifed that the margins ares correctly on every individual report/page and on the overall report that holds all five subforms.
Based on advice from EE I created a main report that has all five pages as subforms. It had been printing fine but I got word this morning that the first page is a blank sheet of paper. The next 4 print as they should.
I first put the report on the screen in preview mode and everything looks perfect. All five pages formatted as they should. It's only use they use the Print... option, selecting all pages to print that this problem occurs.
I suggested as a temporary work around to just print page 1 of 1 in the print dialog box, but that prints a blank sheet of paper also.
I verifed that the margins ares correctly on every individual report/page and on the overall report that holds all five subforms.
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Since posting the issue I discovered what was causing it but I'm keeping the question open because I still don't have a resolution.
Prior to today's release, when the users entered a payment plan for a customer three report/documents were generated in preview mode. An agreement, a cover letter and payment coupons. All generated on standard paper in portrait mode. Everything was cool.
The user requested that an account statement also be generated with the three other documents. I added the generation of the account statement to this process. The account statement prints in landscape mode. That was the only change I made. After that, all documents looked fine in preview mode but the agreement printed a blank page when sent to the printer.
When the problem occurred today. I made many many changes to the agreement trying to get it to print correctly. What eventually resolved the problem was removing the generation of the account statement. Once I removed it, the agreement started printing perfectly again.
The big question is why did the generation of the statement. It is simply a DoCmd.OpenReport "Statement", acPreview
The user really want all document to generate together but until I know why this occurred and how to resolve it I can't do that.
Prior to today's release, when the users entered a payment plan for a customer three report/documents were generated in preview mode. An agreement, a cover letter and payment coupons. All generated on standard paper in portrait mode. Everything was cool.
The user requested that an account statement also be generated with the three other documents. I added the generation of the account statement to this process. The account statement prints in landscape mode. That was the only change I made. After that, all documents looked fine in preview mode but the agreement printed a blank page when sent to the printer.
When the problem occurred today. I made many many changes to the agreement trying to get it to print correctly. What eventually resolved the problem was removing the generation of the account statement. Once I removed it, the agreement started printing perfectly again.
The big question is why did the generation of the statement. It is simply a DoCmd.OpenReport "Statement", acPreview
The user really want all document to generate together but until I know why this occurred and how to resolve it I can't do that.
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I also0 set the Visible property to No for all report heades and footers since there is nothing in them anyway. Still had the same result.