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    #1

    go to page in report preview

    Does version 4.5 put back in the ability to go to a specific page during report previews? This was taken out a year or two ago. If it's not there or not going to be put into version 5, then I'm not going to upgrade. May sound silly but it's important to me and I really have no good reason to upgrade. Need some inducement.
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    RE: go to page in report preview

    Bob, I don't recall seeing that in the feature set for vers. 4.5.

    And, yes, a decision to forego the benefits of upgrading to 4.5 and 5.0 because of the possible lack of a 'go to page' function in the report preview does sound silly to me.

    -- tom

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      #3
      RE: go to page in report preview

      This was a feature in A5V1 which I loved too. If you have to preview reports containing hundreds of pages, it is a huge time-saver.

      I'd love to see it back in V5 but most people never knew the feature was there in the first place.

      Finian
      Finian

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        #4
        RE: go to page in report preview

        Finian,

        Was the 'go to page' keyed to the page number?

        I ask because it seems that for most folks the page number is irrelevant, it's the information on the page that's important in most apps, right?

        Why not run a query for the desired info and then preview a filtered report showing just the desired information?

        Sorry to be so dense but I must be missing something here...

        -- tom

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          #5
          RE: go to page in report preview

          the "goto page" report preview feature is in v5.
          in addition,in v5 you can export any report into pdf format, so that you can then open it with Acrobat reader, and search for any textor
          print any single page. you can also print a single page
          in v5, but the report preview won't allow you to search for
          text.

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            #6
            RE: go to page in report preview

            Excellent news ...!

            Finian
            Finian

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              #7
              RE: go to page in report preview

              Tom:

              Yes, it was keyed to the preview page. There a was a box into which you typed the page number and the preview moved along to that page. The current alternative is to click the page forward arrow X times to get to page X.

              Sometimes you just want to see what is on a particular page ... maybe you've got a weird calculated field in the report that may only appear 3 times in 100 pages, this was a quick and easy way to do that.

              Finian
              Finian

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                #8
                RE: go to page in report preview

                Ok, I can see that. Still don't think I would refuse to upgrade if this functionality were left out. While my face isn't too happy with my nose, it's not mad enough to cut it off.

                -- tom

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                  #9
                  RE: go to page in report preview

                  I've done without it since V1 so getting it back in V5 is a bonus.

                  Finian
                  Finian

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                    #10
                    RE: go to page in report preview

                    Very good. When creating reports, one doesn't know if things like field lengths are sufficient and it may not be possible to tell from looking at just one page. In long reports, it's ridiculous to have to go forward one page at a time when you know that the most likely place for a problem is on page 84 of 200. I have some long reports and find this feature extremely useful. I've been using Alpha since 1990 and this feature was always there until someone either intentionally or inadvertantly removed it. it's been a sore spot ever since. Understand that a lot of us use alpha primarily for the same old thing. I don't need to do much programming or create applications or fancy forms at home. Since it seems that most upgrade features are for those who are serious users, it doesn't do much for me. I am interested in the fact that the new version is supposed to be faster. Since the report preview feature has been put back in, I will upgrade. Hopefully, there will be other new features that I can take advantage of. Alpha is far better than ACCESS, dBase and any other database program I have used.

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                      RE: go to page in report preview

                      Bob,

                      I hope my earlier posts in this thread did not signal indifference to 'sore spots'. It's the little things that drive me crazy, too. To illustrate the point (so to speak) someone once told me that you can sit on a mountaintop, but you can't sit on a tack!

                      -- tom

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