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Report Designer - Add a line or a box to a document

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Summary

How to quickly draw lines and boxes on your reports and layouts using Report Designer.

Description

You can customise documents such as invoices, to add a line or a box to a document to make them easier to read. Let's take a look at how to do this.

Resolution

Draw a line


  1. Select the document you want to amend, then click Edit.
  2. Click Toolbox, then click Draw Line.
  3. Move the mouse pointer to where you want your line to start.
  4. Click and drag to draw the line to the required length then release the mouse button.
  5. If required, in the Line and box properties you can amend the line properties.
  6. On the menu bar click File, click Save As.
  7. Enter a new file name then click Save.
  8. On the menu bar click File, then click Exit.









 NOTE: You can't draw lines and boxes over multiple sections. To do this, you should use a template. Read more >



Draw a box

  1. Open Sage Accounts, select the document you want to amend, then click Edit.
  2. On the menu bar click Toolbox, then click Draw Box.
  3. Move the mouse pointer to where you want your box to start.
  4. Click and drag to draw box to the required size then release the mouse button.
  5. On the menu bar click File, click Save As.
  6. Enter a new file name then click Save.
  7. On the menu bar click File, then click Exit.