Best practices for designing effective documents

Before you begin creating a document, review the best practices listed below. These suggestions will help you design an effective, attractive, and practical document.

The best practices are grouped into the following sections:

• Gather information about your user audience

• Gather information about your data source

• Gather information about your MicroStrategy project

• Locate or create time-savers

• Design the document effectively

• Designing documents for Excel

• Designing documents for the Kindle and Nook

• Best practices: Designing documents for Excel if you are designing a document that may be exported to Excel

• Best practices: Designing documents for the Kindle and Nook if you are designing a document that may be exported to a Nook or Kindle

• Best practices for designing effective Report Services (RS) dashboards if you are designing an interactive document that uses effects and widgets

Related Topics

• Adding text and data to documents

• Adding lines to documents

• Adding rectangles to documents

• Adding images to documents

• Formatting documents

• Aligning controls on documents

• Distributing controls on documents

• Moving controls on documents

• Ordering controls on documents

• Sizing controls on documents

• Working with sections in documents