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From: avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Appleworks GS Questions
Message-ID: <13176@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 90 01:16:46 GMT
References: <9008291701.AA17270@apple.com>
Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest}
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In article <9008291701.AA17270@apple.com>, STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) writes:
  
>   Since database reports are created as word processing documents and those
> documents can't be more than 8" wide, we can't get database reports more
> than 8" wide.  Is there any way around that?  (We've wound up copying the
> database records into a spreadsheet and manipulating that, but it's not
> ideal and I expect we'll run into memory problems eventually.)
  
Have you tried going into page setup and setting it to print sideways?

>   We've also found that the program bombs when we try creating a report
> using subtotals.  We get the message "No more occurences of text found"
> and then, after pressing the dialog button, we get another dialog box
> with the message "A serious system error has occurred" and the machine
> has to be rebooted.

Did the machine give you an error number?

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