The No Stress Tech Guide To Crystal Reports
For Visual Studio 2005 For Beginners

	By Dr. Indera E. Murphy First Edition February 2008 ISBN-10: 0977391264 ISBN-13: 978-0-9773912-6-4 LCCN: 2008900480 416 Pages Paperback Price $54.99 US A newer version of this book is available. Click here. Table Of Contents Sample Chapter You can buy this book from: Amazon or Barnes & Noble
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Overview
If you have been looking for a beginners book that has a lot of step-by-step instructions and screen shots to let you know that you are mastering Crystal Reports For Visual Studio 2005 design techniques correctly, this is the book for you. The No Stress Tech Guide To Crystal Reports For Visual Studio 2005 For Beginners book is a self-paced guide to learning Crystal Reports and is written from the perspective that the reader has not created a report before or has not used Crystal Reports. There are time saving tips, advice and humor to help you over the rough areas, and enhance your Crystal Reports knowledge. In a user-friendly way, you will tackle the topics listed below and much, much more, without getting "stressed" out. You will learn the skills required to become an effective report designer.

- Basic reporting skills and report design techniques
- Database concepts
- Connect to a database
- Create reports using the wizards and from scratch
- Select, sort, group and summarize data
- Create charts
- Use parameter fields to create interactive reports
- Use the Formula Editor and Formula Workshop to manipulate data and create formulas
- Create Top N and Cross-Tab reports
- Export reports to several formats including Adobe PDF, Word and Excel

Crystal Reports is the most popular report writing software on the market. The No Stress Tech Guide To Crystal Reports For Visual Studio 2005 For Beginners will lead the novice and intermediate user through the features of Crystal Reports, which will take your skills to the next level. This book is not for Crystal Reports advanced or power users. To help you become familiar with the options, the No Stress Tech Guide To Crystal Reports For Visual Studio 2005 contains over 600 screen shots that provide a visual tour of the software.

Table Of Contents

Lesson 1 - Getting Started With Crystal Reports For Visual Studio 2005
Lesson 2 - Create Your First Report
Lesson 3 - Create Reports From Scratch
Lesson 4 - Formatting And Editing 101
Lesson 5 - Selecting Records
Lesson 6 - Grouping, Sorting And Summarizing Records
Lesson 7 - Report Wizards And Templates
Lesson 8 - Printing And Exporting
Lesson 9 - Formulas And Functions
Lesson 10 - Conditional Formatting
Lesson 11 - Charts
Lesson 12 - Parameter Fields And Report Alerts
Lesson 13 - Additional Crystal Reports Functionality



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