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Export to Word: Text boxes' lower border too tight

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PhilB2

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Nov 6, 2003
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In a Crystal 9.2 report, there are sections whose lowest-position fields are 'Can Grow' types.

When I export to Word, the lower border of the text box created from the report section is too tight, cutting off about half of the bottom edge of the bottom line of text. In order to have the text display so that looks normal, I have to select the frame of the text box in the Word document so that the bottom drag marker appears, and drag the frame downward.

I do not want to set a fixed height for these sections, although that would solve my export-to-Word problem. Additionally, there are two consecutive sections, the second of which I conditionally suppress, and I would rather not 1) have a large blank area in the report; 2) attempt to conditionally overlay the second section or 3) place all the fields in one section and conditionally suppress one or the other set.)

I tried modifying the report as follows, with no improvement:

Moved the first field of the following section downward.

Added a text field below the original field, and inserted spaces in it.

Added a box around the original field and checked 'Extend to Bottom of Section when Printing'.
 
Update: I've decided to create fixed-height fields in order to avoid the tight lower border problem; however, it would be interesting to know if there's a fix.

Referring to my note in my prior post about the section that I need conditionally suppressed, I realized that this was not an issue, and is unrelated to the tight border problem.
 
I should add that in addition to creating the fixed-height fields, I had to uncheck 'Can Grow' for those fields, in order to avoid the MS Word tight border problem when exporting the report.
 
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