Styles can be used to make it easy to replicate a certain look and feel across different report components. A Style is a set of saved appearance properties that can be applied to print layout components. Typical styles settings include titles, sub titles, odd band, even band, and normal text.

To create styles:

1.Open the Print Layout Explorer .

2.Select the Styles heading and click the Add button next to the title.

3.Expand the Styles heading and select the new style.

4.Click Edit to configure the properties of the new style.

Styles can be applied to a print layout, band or control by selecting the item and then in the Properties panel, expanding the Styles heading and applying the style to any one of the style properties (Odd, Even, Style). Alternatively, styles can be applied to controls by opening the Print Layout Explorer view and dragging styles onto controls in the layout. When a style is assigned to a control using its Styles property, the style properties will override any of those set at the control or parent level.

Odd and Even style properties are available for most controls as well as the Detail band and the Sub-band. For both controls or bands, the odd style that is the style that is used for the item's representation in a print layout when it displays an odd record, and the even style is the style that is used for the item's representation in a print layout when it displays and even record.

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Tech Tip: Using the Styles functionality to set styling on reports