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User’s Guide


Format Bar

The format bar provides a quick way to format fields and text in your report. After you select one or more items on the report layout, you can specify font, point size, style, effect, and alignment by using the drop-down list boxes and buttons on this bar.

Figure 1–8 shows an example of the format bar.

Figure 1–8: Format Bar

Use the View menu to control display of the format bar. Choose View Format Bar to hide or display the format bar. A check mark appears beside the menu item when the format bar is displayed.

Report Builder assigns a default alignment to each field when it is inserted on the layout. A field’s default alignment depends on its data type. Table 1–2 lists the default alignment by data type.

Table 1–2: Default Field Alignment  
Data Type
Alignment
NUMERIC
Right-aligned
MEMO
Word-wrapped, left-aligned
All others
Left-aligned

There are three ways to determine the alignment of any field:

See "Fields," for more information about fields.


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