Quote:Mark -
OK, I found the page setting options and have several choices for headers and footers and the specific information I wanted is included.
One problem I am having with this is that I don't seem to have any control over where the header and footer is printed (other than that I can left, right or center the text).
What placement other than right, left, or center do you want in a page header or footer? If you need to horizontally adjust it, add static characters (not preceeded by a "&") to the header / footer.
Quote:I would like to have the date, for example, "tied into" my actual report title.
For example - if my report title (static report layout element) is:
Look who's coming as of
I would like it to read as:
Look who's coming as of November 10, 2005
I tried adding &D (the "tag" for long date format) both to the layout element label (which didn't work) and also to a program field for On print (which didn't work either).
Micorsoft is able to derive the report title from the title tag in the report. It can be placed in the header/footer with "&w". To get what you are describing in your example in a page header, change the report name to "Look who is coming as of" and place: "&w &D" in the IE settings. Page headers and footers are included as a part of report rendering, not report generation. If you place the "&w &D" in the Page Setup dialog in IE, you will affect the page headers and footers as part of report rendering.
Quote:We can incorporate html code in layout elements (e.g. I have used <br> to split the lines of a header). Is there any way we can incorporate the header and footer "tags" (or whatever they are technically called) in a report layout element to be able to better control where it is printed?
Thanks!
From your example, it sounds a lot more like a report or view header, as opposed to a page header. Elements in report or view headers can contain HTML. Can you express in Q&A for DOS report writer terms, which kind of header or footer you are after?