Setting up a report that won't print empty fields

Gosh, these expressions just aren't working. All I get is #name?.

I made sure that the Name property is not the same as any other fields, but
its still not working.

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Start from the simple, and build up.

Can you get this working:
=[Consumer Data Sheet]

If that works but the IIf() does not, I guess you could have a problem with
a missing reference:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-38.html

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"Jenni Grubb via AccessMonster.com" u16268@uwe wrote in message
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Gosh, these expressions just aren't working. All I get is #name?.

I made sure that the Name property is not the same as any other fields,
but
its still not working.

I can't even get =[Consumer Data Sheet] to work. I looked at the link
regarding references, but the files I need were checked. So I don't have a
clue at this point.

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In that case, it seems that you do not have a control on your report named
Consumer Data Sheet

Perhaps it is named something else? Perhaps without the spaces?

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"Jenni Grubb via AccessMonster.com" u16268@uwe wrote in message
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I can't even get =[Consumer Data Sheet] to work. I looked at the link
regarding references, but the files I need were checked. So I don't have
a
clue at this point.

Ok, after taking a break from this horrible report, I went back and redid
every step in a new report. It seems things are better, however the "show
this text" part of the formula in the quazi-label is not showing up, so when
I do have data that needs to appear, only the data appears and no label.

Thanks for being patient with me. I think we've almost got it now.

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Debugging can be fun. ;-)
(Well, it can be frustrating anyway.)

Here's another version you could try:
=IIf(Len(Nz([Field1], "")) = 0, Null, "Show this text")

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"Jenni Grubb via AccessMonster.com" u16268@uwe wrote in message
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Ok, after taking a break from this horrible report, I went back and redid
every step in a new report. It seems things are better, however the "show
this text" part of the formula in the quazi-label is not showing up, so
when
I do have data that needs to appear, only the data appears and no label.

Thanks for being patient with me. I think we've almost got it now.

Eureka! It works... Now I just have to do the rest of my 60 quazi labels.

I do have one more question though. Since I had to put each control on a
separate line, is there a way to set the report to print a record on one page
only, even though the report setup is two pages long? Because the fields
shrink, I don't need a record to report on two pages... one with data, the
other blank. Actually the records can print one right after the other on
page if the record data is short enough to share a page.

Is that possible?

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The default behavior is to print on the one page.

Perhaps you have set some sections Force New Page property?

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"Jenni Grubb via AccessMonster.com" u16268@uwe wrote in message
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Eureka! It works... Now I just have to do the rest of my 60 quazi labels.

I do have one more question though. Since I had to put each control on a
separate line, is there a way to set the report to print a record on one
page
only, even though the report setup is two pages long? Because the fields
shrink, I don't need a record to report on two pages... one with data, the
other blank. Actually the records can print one right after the other on
page if the record data is short enough to share a page.