Operation Manual

Cross-Tab Objects
Formatting Cross-Tabs
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Crystal Reports lets you designate report objects that don’t expand
horizontally, such as text objects, field objects, OLE objects, charts, maps,
lines, boxes, and so on, to be repeated on each additional horizontal page
that a Cross-Tab creates. For more information, see “Repeating report objects
on horizontal pages” on page 267.
Formatting Cross-Tabs
Crystal Reports has powerful formatting capabilities that can be applied to
Cross-Tabs. The following sections describe these key procedures:
• Changing width, height, and alignment of Cross-Tab cells
• Formatting background color of entire rows/columns
• Formatting fields individually
• Formatting several fields at one time
• Suppressing Cross-Tab data
• Displaying summarized fields horizontally
By applying such formatting as background color, borders, and fonts, you can
emphasize important data and create professional-looking, easy-to-understand
Cross-Tabs. For more information, see “Formatting properties” on page 260.
You can also use the Highlighting Expert to apply conditional formatting to
Cross-Tab cells. To access the Highlighting Expert, right-click the cell you
want to format and, on the shortcut menu, click Highlighting Expert. For more
details, see “Using the Highlighting Expert” on page 275.
Changing width, height, and alignment of Cross-Tab cells
1. Click a cell within the Cross-Tab to activate the sizing handles.
2. Click and drag one of the sizing handles to expand the width or height of
the cell.
3. Click an alignment option on the Formatting toolbar to change the
alignment of the data in the cell.
You can choose between left, right, center, and justified alignment.
Note: Changing one cell affects all like cells. For example, changing the
width of one summary field cell changes all other summary field cells at the
same time.