First page blank on report

We made some minor modifications to a report, added a field to an empty space on the middle of the form and updated a simple formula to display one line less of an address and now it seems that the report works fine but the first page doesn't show any data. Does anyone have any ideas what would cause the first page to be without data? The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th pages print data on them fine. None of the formatting changed on the report.
Thanks in advance.

This was a new project for me and we found out the developer had fixed a bug that we reintroduced by adjusting some table linking. Once the developers fixed the bug the first page was no longer blank. It was more of a missing data issue than a totally blank page. Thanks for all your input.

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