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Reports

This lesson will show you how to build a simple report and how to print it. Use the Report Designer to create sets of printing commands which can be used repeatedly to print your data and make it look good. Start the Report Designer with Tools->Report Designer or by clicking the Reports icon on the worksheet Toolbar.

First, we will name the report. Click in the Name field in the lower right part of the Report Inspector and type SampleCompany and click on the Add button. This will add a report named SampleCompany to the worksheet.

Next, change the orientation of the report by clicking on the Landscape radio button in the Page Layout section of the inspector. Select the first line in the Range section and type A2:G999, and click on the Smart Width button on that line. This will set the print range to cells A2 through G999 and use the first row as titles on each page. You may question the designation of almost 1,000 lines in the report if you have only filled in a few lines. Mesa automatically ignores rows that do not contain any information when printing, so only the lines that contain information will be printed.

Now, we will add Tags to the report. The Report Inspector contains a virtual piece of paper onto which you can place tags which contain information such as print time and more. You can reduce the scale of the piece of paper using the Scaler at the bottom right of the Page Area.. Drag the tag marked Page# from the tags and drop in on the top part of the piece of paper. Mesa will now print the file name on the top of this report every time you print it.

Now click Save to add this report to the Report List.

Click on print button to print out your report. Next drag the report icon onto the worksheet.

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