Crystal Reports Basic Training

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Crystal ReportsBasic Training
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Crystal Reports Requirements

• Full Installation of Crystal Reports
• halFILE Admin Crystal Reports Program Location

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Quick Crystal Reports Reference

• halFILE Crystal scratch files are built in
  TEMP directory on your PC
• HALREPORT.TXT Detail Hit List Report file
• HALCARD.TXT Card-style Hit List Report file
• CRITERIA.TXT Search Criteria Report file
• HITLIST.TXT Abbreviated Hit List Report file
• HALREPORTS.DSN File DSN used to open scratch
  files

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Were you napping when we...

• Inserted hal data fields into the report
• Set special formatting on fields
• Added a group for sorting
• Suppressed sections on report
• Drew a line underneath rows

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Were you STILL napping when we...

• Inserted date of report and page count
• Sized fields and shifted them around layout of
  report
• Set font size, bolded and italicized
• Linked to SQL database to print table descriptions

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Crystal Basic Design A Piece of Cake
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Questions???