| Office
Report Builder
The program includes:
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Word Report Builder
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Excel Report Builder
Office Report Builder
is an easy and convenient tool for the creation and customisation of reports
which takes advantage of the formatting and presentation capabilities of
Microsoft Word and Excel 7.0, 8.0, 2000. The program allows the rapid construction
of reports as forms and columnar reports.
General Principles of
operation.
Two possibilities are available
for the choice of datasource for your reports:
1) Your own application can
generate the data for which the report is to be generated. In this case,
the Office Report Builder will construct the report based on the data contained
in a temporary table.
2) Office Report Builder
can make use of SQL through a query editor which is part of the program.
This allows the formation of pre-defined reports which are run at a regular
interval – e.g. aged debtor &c.
Here are some of the features
of Office Report Builder:
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A GUI style design environment,
which allows the user to design their reports visually inside MS Excel
/ Word.
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On screen preview facilities,
also within MS Excel and Word.
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Reports can be saved and then
viewed and printed as pure MS Excel or MS Word documents - there is no
need to send any additional executables to third parties to whom you wish
to send reports.
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The GUI interface means that
the learning curve is minimal and that users can be operational with a
minimum of delay.
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Office Report Builder has the
ability to produce mailing labels and multi-column reports using the capacities
of MS Excel and MS Word.
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The reports are created and
printed rapidly.
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The page size can automatically
be scaled down in order to print several report pages on each sheet of
printer paper.
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The use of different fonts,
sizes, styles and colours is fully supported, just as it is under MS Excel
and MS Word.
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In fact, it is by harnassing
the power of MS Excel and MS Word that gives Office Report Builder these
abilities.
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Reports may be printed in Portrait
or Landscape mode.
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No technical knowledge is needed
in order for the user to customize his or her own reports.
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It is possible to call the Excel
and Word Report Builder from other programs.
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