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Best way to design same report header on all reports
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08/04/2002 10:02:48
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
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00642168
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>I have about 10 reports so far and more to come. Except for the title of the report, all the field information in the page header of all the reports will be the same i.e. client account no., client name. etc.
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>Right now when I create a new report, I copy a page header from a report already made and paste it into the new report and just change the title of the report.
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>Is there a better way of doing this?
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>Deb

It depends on which version of VFP you are using. It used to be that you could create a report called "UNTITLED" and save it. Once saved, any time you create a new report, that report is used as a template. But somewhere along the way, MS changed the behavior and now each new reports is created with a new temporary name like REPORT1, REPORT2, and so on .. so we inadvertantly lost this "feature".

What I usually do is create the "template" report and save it with some name .. then make it READ ONLY. This way, instead of creating a NEW report, I open this ReadOnly template and then do a SAVE AS and give it a new name. The other approach you can take is to create a new template and save it as a new wizard template. Then, instead of creating a new report, use the Report Wizard to start all your reports.

Cathy



Cathy
Cathy Pountney, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
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