Microsoft KB Archive/60305

Works: Moving Reports Between Files

PSS ID Number: Q60305 Article last modified on 06-12-1996

1.00 1.05 2.00

MS-DOS

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You cannot transfer a report definition between two different database files and then edit the report in the new location. However, a report can be integrated into a word processor, spreadsheet, and/or another database as it would be printed out from the original database.

To do this, go to the report definition screen. Highlight the entire definition, choose Edit Copy, and then select the file you want to add the report to. The actual report definition cannot be changed once it is moved–it remains the same.

The “Save As” feature in Works versions 1.00 and 1.05 is not for saving a report definition, but saves all introductory and summary fields into a text file so that they can be integrated into another tool. This is especially useful for keeping running totals of report summaries or for presenting report summaries in a word processing document, since the record rows are not saved in the “Save As” feature.

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