Formatting document sections

You can format each document section individually. Your formatting choices include:

• Whether to hide or display document sections. For examples and steps, see Hiding or displaying sections for a finished document.

• Formatting the background color of each document section. For steps, see Formatting the background color of document sections.

• Displaying the detail sections horizontally across the page. Detail sections include the Detail Header, Detail Footer, and Detail. You can display all three sections horizontally or just the Detail section horizontally. For examples and steps, see Displaying sections horizontally.

• Changing the size of document sections. You can define a document section as a set size that does not vary, or as a variable size that grows or shrinks within set limits. For examples and steps, see Changing the size of a section.

• Specifying whether the entire contents of a document section are repeated on the next horizontal page when a section spans multiple pages. This is generally used with Grid/Graphs, particularly those with uncertain widths, so that the grid or graph report is labeled on every page that it stretches to. For examples and steps, see Repeating information horizontally.

• Specifying whether a header or footer section is repeated on each page of a document. By default, the controls in any repeating section are displayed on each page of the document, but you can specify that a control is not displayed the last time that the document section is displayed. Use this feature to display text such as "Continued on next page" on every page except the last page. For steps and an example, see Repeating information on each page.

• Specifying how page breaks within document sections are handled. If a document section begins in the middle of a page and spans multiple pages, the remainder of the section can be printed on the same page, or the section can start on the next page. This can help keep column labels with the data they identify. For examples and steps, see Keeping the contents of a section together .

• Specifying how row heights are determined when the document is exported to Excel. You can choose to have all the rows be the same height or to allow Excel to automatically adjust the row height to fit the data. For steps and an example, see Allowing Excel to automatically change row height.