Crystal Reports 8
This series introduces users to Crystal Reports 8, a popular database reporting program. In this series, you will learn how to create standard and custom reports. You will also learn how to filter, summarize, sort, group, and manipulate data by inserting formulas and functions.
This series is for anyone who wants to get started using Crystal Reports 8. This online course contains 8 lessons and should take approximately 28 hours to complete.
Getting Started
This course shows users how to create and save a standard report in Crystal Reports 8 and teaches you how to create a standard report, use a Crystal Reports expert, use the preview and design modes, insert text objects, and save a standard report.
Designing a Report
This course shows users how to create a custom report in Crystal Reports 8 and customize it by inserting special fields and changing object properties and teaches you how to create custom reports, insert special fields, use guidelines, change text object properties, and change date object properties.
Selecting Records
This course shows the user how to filter data in Crystal Reports 8 using compound filters, date searches and wildcards and teaches you how to set up selection criteria, use compound selection filters, select date fields, use the OR connector, and use wildcards.
Sorting and Grouping Data
This course shows users how to sort and group data in Crystal Reports 8 and teaches you how to sort data, group data, modify an existing group, and manage groups.
Creating Summary Totals, Reports, and Graphs
This course shows users how to summarize data using totals, reports, and graphs in Crystal Reports 8 and teaches you how to create grand totals and other summary fields, create subtotals, distinguish between summary totals and subtotals, produce summary reports, create summary graphs, edit summary graphs, and analyze summary graphs.
Formulas and Functions
This course shows users how to insert and use formulas and functions in Crystal Reports 8 and teaches you how to insert formula fields into a report, use conditional formatting formulas, insert and use functions in a report, create a formula using the if...then...else operator, create a nested IF statement, and create a conditional IF statement.
Printing and Exporting Reports
This course shows users how to print reports from Crystal Reports 8 and how to export report data to Microsoft Excel and Word formats and teaches you how to print a report, export report documentation, export report data to Word, export report data to Excel, and create a report from an Excel spreadsheet.
Linking Tables
This course shows users how to use Crystal Reports 8 to link data tables together and create mailing labels and teaches you how to describe database concepts, link data tables, use the Visual Linking expert, and create mailing labels.