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alternative ways of designing a database, this design was selected to keep
the tutorials and examples focused on reporting, not on data manipulation.
Report Creation Wizards
The tutorials in this section show you how to build a report from scratch. As
a complement or an alternative, however, you may want to use the Report
Creation Wizards available on the Start Page. There are four Report Creation
Wizards:
• Standard
• Cross-Tab
• Mailing Label
• OLAP
Each wizard guides you through the creation of a report by providing a series
of screens. Many of the wizards have screens unique to a specific type of
report. For example, the Mailing Labels Report Creation Wizard has a screen
that allows you to specify the type of mailing label you want to use.
Note:
After you've clicked the Finish button in a Report Creation Wizard, you can
click the Stop button on the Navigation Tools toolbar if you don't want the
program to gather all the data from your data source. This is useful if you
want to make adjustments to the report layout that the wizard created.
Standard
The Standard Report Creation Wizard is the most generic of the wizards. It
guides you through choosing a data source and linking database tables. It
also helps you add fields and specify the grouping, summarization (totals),
and sorting criteria you want to use. Finally, the Standard Report Creation
Wizard leads you through chart creation and record selection.
The Templates screen contains predefined layouts for you to apply to your
report to give it more impact.
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4 Quick Start
Report Creation Wizards