The options form is selected from the main menu and displays the current report options such as target page size, database and query. Each option is selected and defined by clicking the buttons to the right of the option.The options form has two displays the first is as shown in figure 1. below.
Figure 1. Report Options main display
Once the report options are selected the application retrieves the field information from the selected query and prepares the second display which allows the user to set the data section options on the selected fields from the query as shown below.
Figure 2 Report Options data section display.
The first column shows the name of a field selected from the database by the query. The second allows the user to choose whether a particular field will be displayed on the report. Clicking the check box will include that field in the report. The title column is used to enter a title for the section header for the included field. The start column allows the field to be positioned at any point in the reports usable width(page width minus the left and right margins). The width column defines how much room is to be left for the field display.