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How to preview a report

The guide describes how to:

• Previewing a report
• Searching reports
• Adding a watermark to the report

After the report has been created, you can review how the report looks before you save it.

Previewing a report

To preview a report, switch to the Preview mode at the bottom of Report Designer.

With the Preview Mode toolbar, you can do the following:

Icon	Title	Description
	Thumbnails	Generates a thumbnail image of your report.
	Search	Allows you to search for a text in the report.
	Save the document	Saves a report.
/	Print/Quick Print	Prints a report.
	Page Setup	Allows you to specify page settings, such as size, orientation, and margins.
	Scale	Allows you to adjust the scaling setting of the report.
	Zooming settings	Allows you to zoom in and out of the report.
	Paginated report	Allows you to switch between report pages.
	Background	Allows to set a background color for the report.
	Watermark	Allows you to add a watermark to the specific page or all pages of the report.

Searching reports

1. On the Preview Mode toolbar, click Search.

2. In the Search field, enter the text you want to find.

3. In the settings, you can apply either a case-sensitive search or look only for whole words.

4. Use Previous and Next to search through the text.

5. Click Close to finish the search.

Adding a watermark to the report

1. On the Preview Mode toolbar, click Watermark.

Note

You can also use the report smart tag panel to open the Watermark dialog and add a watermark. To do so, click Menu in the upper-left corner of Report Designer.

2. In the Watermark dialog that opens, you can add either a text or a picture watermark.

To add a text watermark, switch to the Text Watermark tab and specify the details:

• Select the watermark from the list of predefined watermarks
• Select the direction, color, font, and size
• Set up the watermark transparency and position
• Specify whether to display a watermark on all pages or on specific ones

To add a picture watermark, switch to the Picture Watermark tab and do the following:

• Load a watermark to the report by clicking Browse
• Select the size
• Select the Tiling checkbox to add a tiled watermark to the report
• Align the watermark vertically and horizontally
• Set up the watermark transparency and position
• Specify whether to display a watermark on all pages or a specific one

To remove the watermark from the page, click Clear All.

3. To save the changes, click OK.

4. Switch to the Preview tab to see how the watermark will look like on the report.

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