you can count lines, but the lines are the records.

if the data causes a field to grow, CR does not give you any indication that this has occurred, so it is not a perfect solution.

The alternative would be to see if a field would grow (but this also nothing but a rough estimate as CR does not tell you how much room a field needs, like you can do in .Net)...so based on how many characters are in the field you might be able to determine if the field is going to grow.

you can count the number of lines on a page using variables (probably a running total as well), just can grow can/will trip you up, as there is not really a way to limit the number of rows to 10 or should I say force there to be 10 rows on a page.

For the scenario you have, you want 10, but sometimes it is 9 & 1, and others 10, you would have to have room to add the 10th onto the same page and to suppress the newpage command until later.

Clear as mud, right?