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Report Elements and Properties

To ensure a professional and consistent visual appearance of Microsoft Dynamics NAV reports, we recommend designing according to the standard report templates: Document Report, List Reportand Grouped List Report. This includes choosing the right page sizes, fonts, styles, margins, and colors when designing and modifying reports.

Report design

We recommend using the following settings for report elements and properties when using the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Report Designer.

Element or property Setting

Page Setup

A4 Portrait: Left 2 cm, Right 1 cm, Top 1 cm, Bottom 1 cm

A4 Landscape: Left 1 cm, Right 1 cm, Top 2 cm, Bottom 1 cm

Letter Portrait/Landscape: All margins 0.5 in

Tabloid Portrait/Landscape: All margins 0.5 in

Body Section Width

A4: Portrait 18x27.7 cm, Landscape 27.7x18 cm

Letter: Portrait 7.5x10 in, Landscape 10x7.5 in

Tabloid: 10x16 in, Landscape 16x10 in

Header/Footer Size

Varies depending on amount of content

Report Title in Header Section

Font: Segoe UI, 14 pt, Bold

Cell Height: 20 pt

Padding: Cell Padding, Left 5 pt, Right 5 pt, Top 0 pt, Bottom 0 pt

Text Alignment (document reports): Right

Text Alignment (other reports): Left

Headlines in Body Section

Font: Segoe UI, 8 pt, Bold

Cell Height: 10 pt

Padding: Cell Padding, Left 5 pt, Right 5 pt, Top 0 pt, Bottom 0 pt

All Other Text

Font: Segoe UI, 8 pt, Regular

Cell Height: 10 pt

Padding: Cell Padding, Left 5 pt, Right 5 pt, Top 0 pt, Bottom 0 pt

Spacing below Header Section

Height: 20 pt

Line Spacing

Placed in Grid: 10 pt spacing

Table Header

(Create as 4 rows)

Row 1: Caption in Bold

Row 2: Height 2.5 pt, Border Bottom, Black, Solid, Width 1 pt

Row 3: Height 2.5 pt

Row 4: First line in table

Tables Content

Cell Height: 10 pt

Cell Padding: Left 5 pt, Right 5 pt, Top 0 pt, Bottom 10 pt

Vertical Align for Cells: Top (Default)

If row below is indented: Add 10 pt to Left Padding

Cell Colors

List and Grouped List Reports: Alternate Background = mod 2, “WhiteSmoke”, “White”

Logo

Height: 40 pt

Spacing below Logo: 10 pt

Text Alignment

Numeric/decimal fields: Right

Text/Code fields: Left

Date/Time fields: Left

Link Color

Blue (no underline)

Chart

Palette: BrightPastel

See Also

Concepts

Document Report
List Report
Grouped List Report