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Crystal Reports XI Manual

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Contents
4 Crystal Reports User’s Guide
Chapter 4 Quick Start 45
Learning how to use Crystal Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Sample data - Xtreme.mdb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Report Creation Wizards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Cross-Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Mailing Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
OLAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Quick start for new users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Creating the report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Record Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Grouping and sorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Completing the report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Quick start for advanced users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Chapter 5 Report Design Concepts 73
Basic report design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Deciding on the content of the report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Stating the purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Determining the layout of the report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Finding the data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Manipulating the data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Determining printing area characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Developing a prototype on paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Chapter 6 Introduction to Reporting 81
Report creation options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Report Creation Wizards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Another report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
New report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Choosing data sources and database fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
The Database Expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
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