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Lesson 5: Previewing the Basic Report

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At this point in the tutorial, you can preview the contents of the table. Previewing a report allows you to easily view the appearance of the report without having to go through the extra steps of publishing it to a report server.

To preview a report

  1. Save the report project. On the File menu, click Save All.

  2. Click the Preview tab. Report Designer runs the report and displays it in Preview view.

The following diagram shows the report in the Preview window.

Report in Preview window

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This step concludes the tutorial, "Creating a Basic Report". To add more features to this report, continue working on this report in another tutorial: Tutorial: Adding Grouping, Sorting, and Formatting to a Basic Report.

See Also

Concepts

Previewing Reports

Other Resources

Tutorial: Creating a Basic Report

Help and Information

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