Operation Manual

Multiple Section Reports
About sections
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About sections
Crystal Reports provides five design areas to use when building your report:
• Report Header
• Page Header
• Details
• Report Footer
• Page Footer
Each area contains a single section when you first create a new report. You
cannot delete any of these original sections but you can hide them or add to
them. Once you have added sections, you can delete them, move them in
relation to other similar sections, or merge related sections together.
Working with sections
Many of the procedures in this section show you how to work with sections in
the Section Expert. Sections can also be inserted, deleted, and so on by right-
clicking the shaded area to the left of the section in the Design or Preview
tabs and choosing the appropriate option from the shortcut menu.
Inserting a section
1. Click Section Expert on the Expert Tools toolbar.
The Section Expert appears with a list of all the sections in the report.
When there are more than one of any kind of section, the sections are
lettered A, B, C, and so on.
Note: The program enables only those options (free form, new page
before, and so on) that apply to the highlighted section.