Special Edition Using® Crystal Reports® 10

Crystal Reports in the Real World—Advanced Formatting

Often, a report section needs to be more than simply one color or another. A report with many rows might need some color to help guide the readers eye and make each line distinctly separate from the next. In the following sample, the report Chap7AdvFormat.rpt created earlier is modified to improve readability:

1.	Open the Chap7AdvFormat.rpt report.
2.	From the Report menu, select Section Expert. When the Section Expert dialog window opens, select the Details section and click the Color tab.
3.	As previously described, checking the Background Color box enables you to set all the Detail lines to a single color. The intent here is to highlight the detail lines so they appear distinctly different ...