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Creating a Rectangle Around the Title

Changing the title’s font and point size made it much more noticeable, Now you will emphasize it even more by drawing a rectangle around the title, changing the rectangle border thickness, and adding shading.

The following sections describe these tasks.

Drawing a Rectangle

Follow these steps to draw a rectangle around the report title:

  1. Choose the rectangle button on the tool bar. The cursor changes to a crosshair and a rectangle outline.
  2. Position the crosshair above and to the left of the title, then drag the mouse to the lower right. By default, the Snap To Grid option is enabled, which means that the rectangle outline aligns to the ruler increments.

A rectangle now surrounds the report title. Figure 3–8 shows the layout with the rectangle.

Figure 3–8: Layout with a Rectangle Around the Report Title

Specifying Border Thickness and Shading the Rectangle’s Background

By default, a rectangle has the thinnest black border on all sides and no background shading. Follow these steps to change the border thickness and add shading to the background:

  1. Double-click on the rectangle border. The Rectangle Properties dialog box appears:
  2. Select the second border option from the Edge Thickness drop-down list:
  3. Select Silver from the Background drop-down list, then choose OK to return to the report layout.

Figure 3–9 shows how the report layout appears with a shaded rectangle around the title.

Figure 3–9: Completed Accounts Receivable Layout

If the report layout does not look like this, open the Accounts Receivable Sample report definition in the Tutorial.prl report library to see how it should look.


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