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Customizing Headings and Footings

How to:

Use the Report headings tab to specify the content, style, and placement of headings and footings in your report. Headings and footings can be customized only if a StyleSheet has not been applied. Since Report Assistant applies a StyleSheet by default, you must set the StyleSheet in the Report Options tab to None.

The following image shows the Report headings tab opened with a formatting tool bar, the Page heading and the Page footing text boxes.

Note: Dragging and dropping items, including images, is not supported in the Report Assistant.

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Procedure: How to Add and Align a Heading in a Report
  1. In the Report headings tab, click in the text box or press Alt+H to enter a page heading title.
  2. Click the Center icon to center the heading in the report. The heading is left-aligned by default.
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Procedure: How to Add and Align a Footing in a Report
  1. In the Report headings tab, click in the text box or press Alt+F to enter a page footing title.
  2. Click the Center icon to center the footing on the report. The footing is left-aligned by default.
  3. Click the Bottom icon to place the footing at the bottom of the report.
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Procedure: How to Include a Field in a Heading or Footing

You can include a specified field in a heading or footing. When you run the report, the data value for the field will be included in the heading or footing.

  1. Click the Show fields list icon to the left of the Report headings box to display the Available Fields window.
  2. Select a field from the Available Fields window and drag the field to the Page heading or Page footing box.

    or

    Click and hold the left mouse button, and drag the field to the fields box you chose.

    or

    Use the shortcut keys to quickly go to one of the field boxes.

    In the following table, the first column (Field Box) describes where you go when you use the shortcut key combination described in the second column (Shortcut Keys).

    Field Box

    Shortcut Keys

    Page Heading

    Alt+H

    Page Footing

    Alt+F

    Press Alt+M to go to the Available Fields window, tab to the field and press Enter to add the chosen field in the page heading or footing text box.

Note:

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Procedure: How to Style a Heading or Footing

To style a heading or footing:

  1. Select the field you want to style in the Page heading or the Page footing text box in the Report headings tab.
  2. Click the Cut, Copy, Paste, Select all, and Remove formatting icons to format the text of your choice.
  3. Click the appropriate icons to bold, italicize, or underline your text.
  4. Click the icons for left, center, or right alignment to specify justification.
  5. Click the Bottom icon to move your text to the bottom of the report.
  6. Click the Font list box or press Alt+N to specify your selections.

    Note: When selecting a font, be sure to click in the text box before you select the font name, otherwise the font may return to the original font selection.

  7. Click the Font Size list box or press Alt+S to specify your selections.
  8. Click the Text Color icon or press Alt+C and Enter to open the Color palette window. Choose a color from the color list.
  9. Click the Background Color icon or press Alt+B and Enter to open the Color palette window. Choose a color from the color list.
  10. Click Save or Save As to save your settings.

Note: The default styling settings are as follows:

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