Ohh man this worked. Thank you so much you saved my day.. I'd just set the "splitting type" to "prevent" at your detail band... that means, that the whole detailband is moved to next page, when one of it's element is stretching to the next page. Of course if your textfield will stretch over 2 pages at all, it won't work (as then the selected "prevent" type would actually cause an infinity loop, that is catched of course)... but in most cases we've used it successfully to prevent breaking content that should keep together. hth + regards C-Box