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Creating a Report Using the Report Generator
Creating a Report Generator Report - Specifying the Primary Register
Creating a Report Generator Report - The Appearance of the Report
Creating a Report Generator Report - Choosing a Print Destination
Creating a Report Generator Report - The Width of the Report Window
Creating a Report Generator Report - Printing the Report
Creating a Report Generator Report - Adding White Space
Creating a Report Generator Report - Adding Searches
Creating a Report Generator Report - Adding a Secondary Register
Creating a Report Generator Report - Using Variables and Formulae
Creating a Report Generator Report - Printing Information from Matrices
Creating a Report Generator Report - Bringing Information in from Other Registers
Creating a Report Generator Report - Page Breaks
Creating a Report Generator Report - Filtering Records (Print If)
Creating a Report Generator Report - Adding Check Boxes to the Specification Window
Creating a Report Generator Report - Adding Radio Buttons to the Specification Window
Creating a Report Generator Report - Searching for Records within a Period
Creating a Report Generator Report - Break Points, Subtotals and Totals
Creating a Report Generator Report - Blocks
   - Multi-Row Blocks
   - Single Record Blocks (Printing Information in the Report Header)
Creating a Report Generator Report - Syntax
Creating a Report Generator Report - Useful Functions
Example Reports - Listing Sales Figures
Creating a Report Generator Report - Common Error Messages

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Creating a Report Generator Report - The Appearance of the Report - Adding Column Headings

This page describes adding column headings to a Report Generator report. Please refer to the following pages for details about other tasks that you may need to carry out when designing the output of a Report Generator report:
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When designing the output of a report generator report, one task is to add the column headings that will identify each piece of information in the report. Column headings will usually be printed once in a report. Depending on the requirements of the report you are designing, you can place the column headings in the overall Report Header or in the register Header section: in both cases, they will be printed once at the top of the report. In the example Customer List that we are using in this documentation to illustrate the process of creating Report Generator reports, we will add column headings to identify the Contact Number, Name, Category and Telephone Number of each Customer, and we will place them in the Register Header section (in the example, the Contact Header section).

  1. After creating a Report Generator report and specifying the primary register, go to the 'Layout' card and click on the Register Header section (marked "Contacts vrContact Header" in the example) so that it changes to a darker shade of grey.

  2. Use the [Text] button as described here to create the four headings:

Having added the column headings, please follow the links below for more details about:
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Creating a Report Generator Report:

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