Negative number in "Number of Forms" field

[Boaz Bezborodko]

Thanks to all for the reply.

I'm wondering why I couldn't find anything about it in the manual.  
(Version 4.8 manual.)

Boaz

Nancy Palmquist wrote:

> Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>
>> This is my first post to the list, so I hope this goes through.
>>
>> I'm trying to redo a print form created by a previous programmer.  The
>> form prints checks using one form for multiple invoices.  What he does
>> is run every record down the list on the top of the form and then prints
>> the totals and the address on the Grand Totals section.  The thing
>> that's confusing is that he has the flag "Print grand totals on new
>> form" as "Y" and "Number of forms down the page" as "-14".  Somehow this
>> "-14" gets the totals and addresses printed on the same form as the data
>> lines.
>>
>> What's happening here?
>>
>> One of the reasons I'm looking at this is that I need to change the
>> formatting to print on laser-checks instead of continuous form checks.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> Boaz,
>
> That is the number of data blocks to print on each page before the 
> subtotal section.  If your check only has 5 detail lines, then it will 
> send 9 more data blocks before it prints the subtotal section of the 
> report.
>
> You can see how great this feature can be.
>
> It only works with reports with subtotals and you can not mark the 
> question that "deletes blank lines".
>
> If the data block is 2 lines long and your check stub will hold 10 
> lines of detail then you set the forms down to -5.
>
> If the data block is 1 lines long then set it to -10 to allocate the 
> same 10 lines.
>
> Welcome to the list.
>
> Nancy