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Creating your own Reports using the Next Record Field, which gives you a bit more control over formatting.

Printing fast reports, covering printing the contents of a table or query in the blink of an eye and,.

Handling report-specific fields, especially how to add calculated fields to any report document.

How to exploit the Query Design tool and the SQL view, which are not technically specific to reports, but useful on them.

Reviewing Report Writer, in which I'll identify the wizard's most useful tool.

In this tip, I'll offer how-tos on the primary tools needed for getting creative with reports from OpenOffice 2.0. Creating interesting and more informative reports isn't hard but you must be willing to step away from the wizard.

It requires no SQL know-how at all, just the ability to press F4 and click and drag. In the Project Explorer, double click on UserForm1.In OpenOffice 2.0 Reports, it's easy to do the simple stuff, like just printing the contents of a table or query. Although it looks neat already, nothing will happen yet when we click the command buttons on the Userform.ġ0. We have now created the first part of the Userform. The last code line assigns the array to the combo box. Next, we declare and initialize a two-dimensional array. To achieve this, right mouse click on the combo box control, click Properties and set the ColumnCount property to 2. Instead of setting the number of columns at runtime, you can also configure this setting at design time. To show the Userform, place a command button on your worksheet and add the following code line:Įxplanation: The first code line sets the number of columns of the combo box to 2. To change the caption of the Userform, label and command buttons, click View, Properties Window and click on each control.ĥ. It is good practice to change the names of the controls, but it is not necessary here because we only have a few controls in this example. Captions are those that appear on your screen. You can change the names and the captions of the controls. Next, you can drag a combo box on the Userform.Ĥ. For example, create a combo box control by clicking on ComboBox from the Toolbox. Once this has been completed, the result should be consistent with the picture of the Userform shown earlier.

Add the label, combo box and command buttons. If the Toolbox does not appear automatically, click View, Toolbox. If the Project Explorer is not visible, click View, Project Explorer.Ģ. To create this Userform, execute the following steps.ġ.