Organize and Design Documents

When you create a document using a document template, rather than a dashboard-style template, the document contains multiple sections, These sections allow you to easily organize and design your document. A document section is a portion of the document that is commonly used for a specific purpose or certain types of information. For example, header generally contain titles or other general information that appears at the top of all pages in a document. Likewise, footers generally contain page numbers or other similar information.

The document editor displays all of the document sections in the Layout area.

Documents are designed to present data in hierarchical groups or bands, and can span hundreds of printed pages. Therefore, sections and groupings are useful for these types of documents. This type of document is sometimes referred to as a banded document.