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Section Expert

Use the Section Expert to make formatting changes that affect entire sections of your report. This dialog box appears when you right-click in the Report Designer, and select Section Expert, or when you right-click in the Report Designer, point to Insert and click Section.

Sections This box lists all of the sections in the active report. When you highlight a section in this list, the program sets the dialog box buttons to indicate the actions you can take and the properties you can set for the selected section.
Insert Use this button to insert a new report section immediately below and of the same type as the section you have selected in the Sections list.
Delete Use this button to delete the section you have selected in the Sections list. You can only delete sections that have been added to the originating sections; you cannot delete any of the originating sections.
Merge Use this button to merge the current section with the companion section that appears immediately below it.

Note

You cannot merge sections of different types; for example, you cannot merge a Details section with a Group Header section.

Arrow buttons Use these buttons to move a section up or down with respect to other related sections.

Note

You cannot move a section past a section of a different type

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