NewRowOrCol Property

Applies To Form section, Report section.

Description

You can use the NewRowOrCol property to specify whether a section and its associated data is printed in a new row or column within a multiple-column report or multiple-column form. For example, you can use this property to print each group header at the top of a new column in a multiple-column report.

Note The NewRowOrCol property doesn't apply to page headers or page footers.

Setting

The NewRowOrCol property uses the following settings.

Setting	Description	Visual Basic

None	(Default) The row or column breaks are determined by the settings in the Page Setup dialog box (available by clicking Page Setup on the File menu) and the available space on the page.	0
Before Section	Microsoft Access starts printing the current section (the section for which you're setting the property, such as a group header section) in a new row or column. It then prints the next section, such as a detail section, in that same row or column.	1

(continued)

After Section	Microsoft Access starts printing the current section, such as a group header section, in the current row or column. It starts printing the next section, such as a detail section, in the next row or column.	2
Before & After	Microsoft Access starts printing the current section in a new row or column. It starts printing the following section in the next row or column.	3

You can set this property by using the section's property sheet, a macro, or Visual Basic.

You can set the NewRowOrCol property only in form Design view or report Design view.

Remarks

The following items are some sample settings for a group header section in a multiple-column report. Make sure Down, Then Across is selected under Column Layout on the Columns tab of the Page Setup dialog box.

Sample Setting	Result

Before Section	The group header is printed at the top of a new column.
After Section	The detail section is printed at the top of a new column.
Before & After	The group header is printed in a column by itself, and the detail section is printed at the top of a new column.

Sections in a form or report are normally printed vertically down a page. The default Column Layout option is Across, Then Down. You can print the sections in multiple columns across a page by clicking Down, Then Across under Column Layout on the Columns tab of the Page Setup dialog box.

If you set the NewRowOrCol property to Before Section, the vertical or horizontal orientation of the page affects how the section appears when printed. If you click Across, Then Down under Column Layout on the Columns tab of the Page Setup dialog box, Microsoft Access starts printing the section at the beginning of a new row; if you click Down, Then Across, Microsoft Access starts printing the section at the beginning of a new column.

See Also ForceNewPage property.

Example

The following example returns the NewRowOrCol property setting and assigns it to the intGetVal variable.

Dim intGetVal As Integer
intGetVal = Me.Section(1).NewRowOrCol

The next example presents two layouts for a report that divides data into four groups (Head1 to Head4). Each group includes three to six records, and each record has field a and field b. The layouts differ only in their settings under Column Layout on the Columns tab of the Page Setup dialog box and the values of their NewRowOrCol properties. Note that the Width box under Column Size on the Columns tab must be set to the actual width of the field. Also, the Before Section setting of the NewRowOrCol property requires a page header section greater than zero for the Down, Then Across option to function correctly.

Column Layout — Across, Then Down
Grid Settings — Number of Columns set to 4
NewRowOrCol property setting for group header section — Before & After

Head1

1a 1b 2a 2b 3a 3b 4a 4b

5a 5b

Head2

1a 1b 2a 2b 3a 3b 4a 4b

Head3

1a 1b 2a 2b 3a 3b

Head4

1a 1b 2a 2b 3a 3b 4a 4b

5a 5b 6a 6b

Column Layout — Down, Then Across
Grid Settings — Number of Columns set to 4
NewRowOrCol property setting for group header section — Before Section

Head1 Head2 Head3 Head4

1a 1b 1a 1b 1a 1b 1a 1b

2a 2b 2a 2b 2a 2b 2a 2b

3a 3b 3a 3b 3a 3b 3a 3b

4a 4b 4a 4b 4a 4b

5a 5b 5a 5b

6a 6b