Crystal Reports® 2008 For Dummies®

Part II. Moving Up to Professional-Quality Reports

In this part ...

After you know how to create a report based on database data, it's time to move up to the next level. In the chapters in this part, you discover how to tease the exact data you want out of the database, unobscured by the irrelevant data that surrounds it. You find out how to arrange data in the report to maximize reader comprehension. You start to master the art of formatting a report to draw the reader's attention to the most important information. Finally, you preserve the valuable features that you worked so hard on so that you can reuse them again and again in reports that you're called on to produce in the coming weeks, months, and years.