Chapter 6: Enhancing Reports

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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.

Related topics

Other ways to enhance reports are covered in later chapters:

Chapter	Explains how to
Chapter 7, “Working with Controls in Reports”	Add controls to a report and reorganize, position, and rotate them
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
Chapter 14, “Working with Crosstabs”	Use crosstabs to present analyses of data retrieved in a report
Chapter 15, “Working with TreeViews”	Use TreeViews to group data and display it hierarchically in a way that allows you to expand and collapse it
Chapter 19, “Controlling Updates in Forms”	Control update capabilities