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CHAPTER 6
Enhancing Reports
About this chapter
After InfoMaker generates a basic report, you can further enhance its
appearance and content. You do that in the Report painter. This chapter
describes basic enhancements you can make to a report.
Contents
Related topics
Other ways to enhance reports are covered in later chapters:
Topic Page
Working in the Report painter 192
Using the Preview view of a report 200
Saving data in an external file 208
Modifying general report properties 216
Storing data in a report using the Data view 230
Retrieving data 232
Chapter Explains how to
Chapter 7, “Working with Controls
in Reports”
Add controls to a report and reorganize,
position, and rotate them
Chapter 19, “Controlling Updates
in Forms”
Control update capabilities
Chapter 8, “Displaying and
Validating Data”
Specify display formats, edit styles, and
validation rules for column data
Chapter 9, “Filtering, Sorting, and
Grouping Rows”
Limit which rows are displayed, the
order in which they are displayed, and
whether they are divided into groups
Chapter 10, “Highlighting
Information in Reports and Forms”
Highlight data by using conditional
expressions to modify the properties of
controls in reports
Chapter 11, “Using Nested
Reports”
Place reports inside reports
Chapter 13, “Working with Graphs” Use graphs to visually present
information retrieved in a report