Working with Report Sections

Introduction

You should be familiar with some of the most common formatting features within the Crystal Reports 10 designer. Building on the concepts and techniques covered in Chapter 6, "Fundamentals of Report Formatting," for report object formatting, this chapter explains how you can format entire sections within your reports. Just as any report object has specific modifiable properties available for formatting, report sections also have unique properties.

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In this chapter, these properties are examined and their use in creating effective professionally styled reports is explored.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Formatting report sections
• Modifying report section properties
• Using multiple report sections