and that was my problem.  Thank you for the guidance.

I already had that selected and it hasn't done anything to change the situation.But I think I figured out where I've gone wrong.  When I select my flowed subform the program is not activating the features in my Pagination palette.

Well your example and directions have provided me the solution to my problem.  However, it has now created another one.  The items do in fact shift downward as the block expands.  The blcoks that follow afterwards are now expanding beyond the border and truncate themselves at the end of the document...

You are right that did make a difference.  However, I now have another problem.  I have text fields after the expanding blockso the expanding block continues to expand over the rest of the blocks without adjusting.  So now I have all the text in the block written over the text in the other blocks.

Thank you for the help.  I accessed the slides in the link and followed the directions with no luck.  Specifically, I followed slide 3 and rather than extending to the new page it gives me the + arrow and the scroll bar on the side of the message and does not expand at all.  Any clue why this may be...

Thank you for the response but alas it was not what I needed.  Ultimately the problem is not what to do (as I know what I need to do) but the problem is how do I get to that point to do what I need to do.  My pagination tab for any of the master pages is not active (as in all the features are darken...