Modifying Layouts
If you have a blank report or label, or the wizard or Quick Report generates a report that does not quite fit your needs, you can modify it in the Report Designer.
In the bands of the Report Designer, you can insert a variety of controls that hold the labels, fields, variables, and expressions that you want in the printed report. For example, in a phone list layout, you would place the field controls for the names and phone numbers as well as label controls and column headings at the top of the list. To enhance your report's visual appeal and readability, you can add line, rectangle, and rounded rectangle controls. You can also include picture controls.
You can open your report or label in the Report Designer to modify and customize the layout.
To modify a generated report or label
- In the Project Manager, select a report or label.
- Choose Modify.
You use the bands of the report to determine what each page, group, and the beginning and end of your report looks like. Report bands can be resized. In the report bands, you add report controls, then move, copy, resize, align, and adjust them to arrange the text and fields in your report.
See Also
Quick Report | Report Designer | Refining Page Layout | Project Manager Window | Adding Reports and Labels | Integrating Queries and Reports | Protecting a Report's Data Session | Adding Label Controls