@Eric Geddes I am also facing same issue . Did you find any solution for this issue how to fix it? Kindly share if you got any workaround to resolve the issue.

Keep your tag in footer it will be fixed position.

Keep your check table in footer to resolve the issue. if you keep your table in footer then it will be not moved to next page.In footer we can place the tag name where your fields are there ex : <?checknum?>

Put each value separated by ; and try