Planning and building the DataWindow object
To design the report, you create a DataWindow object. You select
the data source and presentation style and then:
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Sort the data
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Create groups in the DataWindow object to organize the data in
the report and force page breaks when the group values change -
Enhance the DataWindow object to look like a report (for
example, you might want to add a title, column headers, and a
computed field to number the pages)
Using fonts
Printer fonts are usually shorter and fatter than screen fonts,
so text might not print in the report exactly as it displays in the
DataWindow painter. You can pad the text fields to compensate for this
discrepancy. You should test the report format with a small amount of
data before you print a large report.