Crystal Reports 11 - New page after each parameter - crystal-reports

I am running Crystal Reports 11 and I have a report that has 7 subreports that it pulls and when done, is multiple pages long. I have three parameters I ask for. I want to change one of the parameters to allow multiple fields so I don't have to keep refreshing it but I want the report to repeat for each field value I add.
Example, the report asks for month. I want to put in January, February and March into the field value. The report then should run for each of those months and give me one large report where January and all January data is back to back and then goes to February, etc.
Is this possible?
Thanks.
Jayson

Group the report at level one by Month.
In the Group Options tab (or in the GF1 section), turn on the 'New Page After' option.

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Do your data processing in the database (stored procedures) or core application (C# or whatever), then hand off a simple table or two to Crystal.
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