About This Training Course

This two-day Crystal Reports training course has been designed to enable proficiency in many basic aspects of Crystal Reports. The course includes many practical exercises which help students to quickly become skilled in creating, modifying, developing and distributing reports.

Subjects Covered

1. Introduction to Crystal Reports
• Getting started
• Exploring the report design environment
• Creating and saving reports
• Placing objects on your report
• Modifying reports
• Formatting objects
• Positioning and sizing objects
• The Help feature
2. Organising Records
• Sorting
• Record selection
• Using Select Record options
• Understanding saved -v- refreshed data
• Setting selection criteria
3. Groups and Summaries
• Grouping records
• Modifying groups
• Grouping on date fields
• Summaries
• Grand Totals
4. Formulas and Functions
• Formulas
• Working with the formula editor
• Performing basic calculations
• Modifying formulas
• Using Functions
• The Crystal Repository
5. Experts and wizards
• Database Expert
• Report wizards
• Cross-tab reports
6. Formatting for Presentation Quality Reports
• Applying Absolute formatting
• Formatting text objects
• Inserting lines, boxes and pictures
• Conditional formatting
• Section formatting
7. Distributing Reports
• Exporting reports
• Delivering reports

Prerequisites

Participants must have a proficient knowledge of Microsoft Windows. Basic knowledge of database concepts is recommended.

Other Information

This Crystal Reports training course would suit people who are new to Crystal Reports and who are/will be responsible for creating and distributing reports. The contents will suit those using Crystal Reports V9 and above.