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:

  • Using different fonts, sizes, colors, and styles
  • Building reusable styles
  • Applying formatting to fields and groups
  • Using background colors and images
  • Expanding fields to accommodate large text
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