Try my suggestion.
This particular control at the group section expert will try and keep all child groups (grouping 2, 3 and 4) under it together.
I would also add in the section expert a formula fro 'new page after'at group1 footer (assuming group1 is the 'control group') of
Not onlastrecord
to force new pages per grouping.
You can do a counting mechanism as you indicated but it is a horrid process and still does not guarantee the result either unless maybe you can suppress all the rows that would have gone to a second page.
Make sense?
Edited by DBlank - 22 Jun 2010 at 11:53am