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Wed Mar 23 14:25:26 UTC 2022
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Sage 200 Report Designer - How to create and use styles
Description

By amending the styles on your documents you can customise reports and layouts to your own style, emphasising areas and information where applicable. Any modifications, deletions or new styles created are specific to the document and are not global changes.

This article explains how to create and use styles in Report Designer.

This article has been prepared and issued to you as a goodwill gesture only and Sage accepts no liability or responsibility for its use. For further support please refer to your Business Partner.

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Add a new style to your document
  • Modify Styles (Aa) > New Style > Style name box > enter the name for the new style > amend any font properties as required > OK > OK.

    For further information about the font properties, please refer to the Detailed Steps.
Amend a style
  • Modify Styles (Aa) > select the style you want to amend > Modify > amend your settings as required > OK > OK. For further information about the font properties, please refer to the Detailed Steps tab.
Delete a style
  • Modify Styles (Aa) > select the style you want to delete > Remove > OK.
Amend the font settings for a variable, text box or expression

You can use one of the following two methods to change the font settings on an object:

  • From the Text toolbar - Select the object you want to amend > from the Text toolbar, choose the required font settings. A message appears asking if you want to update the style with the new font settings. For further information about this, please refer to the following section.
  • From the Properties of an object - Click the object and the font properties appear within the Properties pane. Changes to these properties can be applied to either the object selected or all objects that have the same style applied. For further information about this, please refer to the following section.
Font change settings

When changing the Font properties of an object you can choose to:

  • Change only the properties of the object that you are currently amending, this is known as an Object Change.
  • Change all objects of the same style, this is known as a Global Change.

Report Designer allows you to set a default that applies a Global Change when you amend font properties. To set the default when editing your report or layout, open the Tools menu, choose Options then deselect the Prompt on Style Change check box.

If the Prompt on Style Change check box is selected, whenever you amend the font properties of an object through either the Text toolbar or the Properties pane, a message appears asking if you want to apply the changes to the style. To amend only the selected object, click No or to apply the changes to the style and therefore other variables using that Style click Yes.

Note: When applying new font properties to a style, this does not amend objects which have previously had their properties amended through an object change.

Save the changes to your document
  1. Report menu > Report Properties > enter a new name and description for the document > OK.

    Report Designer v1.3 and below - Report Explorer pane > select the document name > Properties pane > Name > enter a new name for the document > Enter.

    Tip: You can check your Report Designer version in Help > About > Application > File Version.

  2. File > Save As > File name > enter a new file name for the document > Save in > browse to the required location for your document > Save.
  3. File > Exit.

The following detailed steps contain everything you need to help you to create and use styles in Report Designer.

 

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