Designer Toolbar

The Designer toolbar contains shortcuts to design features. You can use the View menu to display or hide the Designer toolbar. The following table describes the Designer toolbar buttons and their equivalent menu commands. The Designer toolbar applies to the Studio workspace only.

Button

Menu Command

Description

Insert Grid icon

Insert / Grid

Insert Grid button - Adds a grid to the report.

Insert Text icon

Insert / Text

Insert Text button- Adds a text object to the report.

Insert Image icon

Insert / Image

Insert Image button - Adds an image to the report.

Insert Chart icon

Insert / Chart

Insert Chart button - Adds a chart to the report.

Insert Row icon

Insert / Row

Insert Row button - Inserts a row above a highlighted row in a grid.

  • Click the main button to insert a data row as the selected row in the grid.

  • Click the drop-down arrow to insert another row type from the drop-down list (formula row or text row).

Insert Column icon

Insert /> Column

Insert Column button - Adds a column to the left of a highlighted column in a grid.

  • Click the main button to insert a data column as the selected column in the grid.

  • Click the drop-down arrow to insert another column type from the drop-down list (formula column or text column).

Bold icon

Format / Cells /> Font tab

Bold button - Applies bold to the selected area.

Italic icon

Format / Cells / Font tab

Italic button - Applies italics to the selected area.

Underline icon

Format / Cells / Font tab

Underline button - Draws a line below the selected area.

Left Justify icon

Format / Cells / Alignment tab

Left Justify button - Aligns the selected text to the left. Alignment options are accessed through the Alignment tab in the Format Cells dialog box.

Center justify icon

Format / Cells / Alignment tab

Center Justify button - Aligns the selected text in the center. Alignment options are accessed through the Alignment tab in the Format Cells dialog box.

Right Justify icon

Format / Cells / Alignment tab

Right Justify button - Aligns the selected text to the right. Alignment options are accessed through the Alignment tab in the Format Cells dialog box.

Increase Indent icon

Format / Cells / Alignment tab

Increase Indent button - Increases the indent of the selected text by one pixel increments. Indent functionality is accessed through the Alignment tab in the Format Cells dialog box.

Decrease Indent icon

Format / Cells / Alignment tab

Decrease Indent button - Decreases the indent of the selected text by one pixel increments. Indent functionality is accessed through the Alignment tab in the Format Cells dialog box.

Format icon

Format / Cells

Format button - Enables the Format Cells dialog box, where you can specify formatting such as font type, size, and color for the selected area.

Conditional Format icon

Format / Conditional Format

Conditional Format button - Enables the Conditional Format dialog box through which you can apply formatting to selected cells based on whether specific conditions are met.

Format Painter icon

Format Painter

Format Painter button - Applies a format of a selected cell or cell range to a target cell or cell range. See, Formatting Reports.