Dynamic Form to disregard data

Have a simple question (tough for me though...)
I have a form with 3 pages and multiple subforms in each form. How can I have the form read just one instance of the data (first one) and stop? To make it more clear the invoice form prints multiple invoices (as many as included in the dat file) but I would like to have only the first invoice printed always and disregard the rest of the data in the dat file.
Thanks.

I have worked with subforms quite a bit and have never come across a way of doing this. Subforms are designed to work through the dat file from beginning to end and print new subforms as the data tells it to. The only way to do this that I know of, would be to remove the extra data in your dat file. Then the form will only print the first instance of the subform and stop. Otherwise it will keep printing until it goes all the way through the data in the dat file.

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