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After starting the application the main report screen is displayed as shown in figure 1.

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Figure 1 The report creator main startup screen.

This shown with no report loaded and as well as the menu system shows the report design surface, which is split into three main parts. The report header, section header and the detail section.

The report header section is where the main title or header of the report is designed. You can add images and lines of text to the header. Which can be individually positioned and edited. The section headr and detail portions are where the selected report fields and their titles are displayed. These are defined in the report options along with page size, database and query selection


Using the menu system an existing report can be loaded. Figure 2 shows the main screen after a typical report has been loaded.

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Figure 2. Main screen with report loaded for editing.

Once loaded the report elements can be edited and the whole report can be previewed and printed from the application.