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Preview tab, Preview – HP Intelligent Management Center Standard Software Platform User Manual

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Add horizontal and vertical guidelines by clicking the rulers. See

Designing

with guidelines

.

Zoom in and out on a report at any magnification from 25% to 400% of
the original size. See

Using the zoom feature

.

Preview tab

To preview a report before printing it, click Print Preview on the Standard

toolbar.

The program gathers the data, makes the necessary calculations, and
displays the report in the Preview tab. With the data in place, you can review
the spacing and formatting of your report and see the actual results of all
your summaries, formula calculations, and record and group selections.

In true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) fashion, you can work
directly on this live data, fine-tuning it until the report has the exact look you
want.

The program works with data in the following manner:

The first time the Preview tab is used, it retrieves data from your underlying
data source(s) and saves it with the report (unless you have set up the
program not to save data).

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Crystal Reports 2008 SP3 User's Guide

Introduction to Reporting

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About the report design environment