User`s guide

Record Style - Columns with spaces and Record Style - Columns without spaces
The record-style formats export report data as text. These formats export data only from Group and
Details areas. The output contains one line per record in the database (for the report). The record-style
formats are used mainly for data exchange.
Report Definition
The Report Definition format exports your report to a text file that contains a brief description of the
report's design view. This format is maintained only for compatibility with Crystal Reports 5.0.
Rich Text Format (RTF)
The Rich Text Format (RTF) format is similar to the Microsoft Word (97-2003) format.
Separated Values (CSV)
The Separated Values format is a record-based, data-exchange format. It exports the report object
contents as a set of values separated by separator and delimiter characters that you specify. (When a
comma (,) is used to separate fields, the format is known as Comma Separated Values (CSV); this
export format is popular among Microsoft Excel users.)
Like record-style formats, the Separated Values format also creates one line of values for each record
in your report. A record contains all of the fields in each section of your report as seen in the Design
view. That is, fields in the Report Header section are exported first, followed by the Page Header section,
the Group Header section, the Details section, the Group Footer section, the Report Footer section,
and finally, the Page Footer section.
The Separated Values format cannot be used to export reports with cross-tabs or OLAP grids; nor can
it be used to export reports with subreports in Page Header or Page Footer sections.
Note:
Standard Mode of the "Separated Values" format respects conditional suppression but only for report
content. The data is suppressed, but a row is printed in the report with the field delimiters. For example,
if your field delimiter is a comma and your report has four columns, you will see a blank row that contains
four commas.
Tab Separated Text (TTX)
The Tab Separated Text format is similar to the Text format. This format preserves the layout of your
report but with some differences. In the Text format, multi-line text objects are exported to multiple lines.
In this format, multi-line text objects are exported in a single line; all string values are surrounded by
double quotes (""); and the values themselves are separated by tab characters. TTX files can be opened
in Microsoft Excel.
Text
Text format is a record-based format. Its output is plain text; therefore formatting is not retained. However,
this format can preserve some of your report's layout. Text format assumes that a font of a constant
dimension is used throughout the export. The Characters Per Inch (CPI) option specifies the number
of characters that can be fit in a linear inch of horizontal space, and thus determines the dimension of
the font.
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Printing, Exporting, and Viewing Reports