• Report Design Concepts: Planning the content of the report; Manipulating the data; Determining printing area characteristics; Developing a prototype on paper; Database concepts.

• Report Design: Creating a new report; Exploring the report design environment; Placing objects on your report; Previewing and saving your report; Positioning and sizing objects; Formatting objects; Using Text Objects; Setting system defaults.

• Record Selection: Using the Select Expert; Defining the Select Expert's features; Using the Select Record options; Understanding saved versus refreshed data; Setting additional selection criteria.

• Sorting Grouping and Summarising: Sorting records; Grouping records; Re-ordering groups; Creating sub-totals; Creating Grand Totals; Re-ordering ugisng Top N.

• Date Fields: Formatting and selecting using dates and times.

• Linking: Defining linking concepts; Adding and removing tables from a report; Using Smart Linking; Working with links.

• Advanced Grouping: Creating nested or multiple groups; Re-ordering groups; Groups on date fields.

• Presentation Quality Reports: Adding lines, boxes and images; Using Special Fields; Utilising the power of Text Objects.

• Formula Basics: Using Formulas; Working with the Formula Editor; Using basic calculations; Using string manipulation; Applying basic date calculations; Applying Boolean formulas; Using Crystal functions; Applying If-Then-Else formulas.

• Section Formatting: Using basic section formatting options.

• Conditional Reporting: Using Highlighting Expert; Using conditional formatting formulas; Applying conditional formatting to sections.

• Charting: Creating a chart using the Chart Expert; Drilling down on a chart; Charting on summary data; Customising a chart.

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