Chapter 3. Enhancing the Look and Feel of your Report
In this chapter, you will learn:
Deploying and reusing styles in your report
Setting background color for data
Using HTML tags and bullet lists
Expanding a field vertically to accommodate large text
Applying a formatting pattern to the value of a data field
Using background images and watermarks in your report
Introduction
Graphical and textual effects greatly improve the readability, look, and feel of your reports. For example, a big, bold title, a highlighted heading, a background image, and the use of appropriate fonts and styles all make your report reader friendly.
This chapter contains recipes to produce several types of enhanced visual effects like: