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CHAPTER 14
Working with Crosstabs
About this chapter
This chapter describes how to build crosstabs.
Contents
About crosstabs
Cross tabulation is a useful technique for analyzing data. By presenting
data in a spreadsheet-like grid, a crosstab lets you view summary data
instead of a long series of rows and columns. For example, in a sales report
you might want to summarize the quarterly unit sales of each product.
In InfoMaker, you create crosstabs by using the Crosstab presentation
style. When data is retrieved into the report, the crosstab processes all the
data and presents the summary information you have defined for it.
An example
Crosstabs are easiest to understand through an example. Consider the
Printer table in the EAS Demo DB. It records quarterly unit sales of
printers made by sales representatives in one year. (This is the same data
used to illustrate graphs in Chapter 13, “Working with Graphs.”)
Topic Page
About crosstabs 431
Creating crosstabs 434
Associating data with a crosstab 436
Previewing crosstabs 442
Enhancing crosstabs 442