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Building a Header and Footer Report 16-5 Figure 16–3 Group left report output with summary closer to label

16.4 Add a Page Heading

Now that you have added the repeating frame footer, it is time to add a page header. You perform this task from the Paper Layout view.

1. In the Paper Layout view, click the Edit Margin button in the toolbar.

2. From the font lists in the toolbar, choose Arial Black, point size 16.

3. Click the Text tool in the tool palette.

4. Click somewhere to the right of the logo image and type the following text:

Employee Summary Report

5. Move to an open area of the Paper Layout view and click the mouse button to exit

text mode. Notice that the text object you just created is still selected, you can now adjust its positioning with the arrow keys. If you click in an open area a second time, the object is deselected. 6. Click the Run Paper Layout button in the toolbar to display your report in the Paper Design view. It should look like the following: Note: Similarly, you can add a page footer, below the page margin. 16-6 Oracle Reports Users Guide to Building Reports Figure 16–4 Group left report output with page heading

7. Save the report as headfoot_your_initials.rdf.

16.5 Add White Space and Format Fields

The only task that remains now is to make your report a little more readable by adding some white space between records and formatting values properly.

1. In the Paper Design view, select the first department number value, which should

be 10. All of the department numbers are immediately selected indicating that you can change their properties simultaneously.

2. Click the Align Center button in the toolbar.

3. Click the Select Parent Frame button in the toolbar.

4. Choose Tools Property Inspector to display the Property Inspector, and set the

following property: ■ Under Repeating Frame, set the Vert. Space Between Frames property to 0.25. 5. Click the title bar of the Paper Design view.

6. Select the first number value underneath the Salary label.

7. Shift-click the department summary value for the first department.

8. Click the Currency button in the toolbar. A currency symbol immediately appears next to all of the values. 9. Click the Add Decimal Place button twice. Two decimal places are added to the right of the decimal point.

10. Resize the salary field F_SALARY by clicking and dragging its rightmost handle

approximately 0.5 inches 1.5 centimeters to the left. Notice that even though the summary field F_SumSALARYPerDEPARTMENT_ID is also selected, only F_ SALARY is resized.

11. Shift-click the Salary label itself.

12. Click the Align Right button in the toolbar. All of the values are immediately right

aligned. Tip: If you are familiar with format mask syntax, you could now right-click the field values, choose Property Inspector, and choose or manually enter a value for the Format Mask property.