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User’s Guide
Changing a Field’s Font, Style, Effects, and Color
Although Report Builder applies the default font, style, and color specified to a field, you can change these characteristics for individual fields. To see a field’s current font information, select the field. When you select the field, the format bar displays the font name and point size.
The following sections describe how to change a field’s font information using the Font dialog box. You can also apply any font, style, or effect that is available on the current printer using the format bar. See "Report Builder Basics," for information about using the format bar.
Specifying Fonts
Follow these steps to change the font and point size for one or more fields on the current report layout:
- Select the fields to which you want to apply a different font.
- Choose Properties
Font. The Font dialog box appears:
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- Select a font from the Font selection list.
- Select a point size from the Size selection list. If the font you select is scalable and the point size you want does not appear on the list, enter the desired point size.
- Choose OK to apply the new font information and return to the report layout.
Specifying Styles and Effects
In addition to specifying size, with many fonts you can also apply bold, italic, strikeout, or underline (or a combination of these). Bold and italic styles are not available with all fonts. See your printer or font documentation for information about styles.
Follow these steps to change the style or effect for one or more fields on the current report layout:
Specifying Color
Report Builder applies the default color (specified in the default Settings dialog box) to a field when you insert it on the report layout. However, like all the other font information, you can change a field’s color.
Follow these steps to change the color for one or more fields on the current report layout:
You must have a color printer in order to produce color output. If you apply colors to fields and then print the report on a black and white printer, the printer converts those colors either to black or to a level of gray. For example, on most laser printers a field formatted as yellow prints light gray.
Generating Bar Codes
You can generate bar codes using commercially available font packages. Different bar code fonts or standards might require you to format the value to be converted to a bar code in different ways. For example, some might expect a numeric value, while others might expect a character value. Still others might expect a character value surrounded by asterisks. If the stored data is not in the required form for the bar code font you are using, you must create a calculated field to convert the data to the appropriate form.
To convert the data to the proper form and display it as a bar code, follow these steps:
See the documentation for the bar code font you are using for more information.
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