Specifying general column formatting options

On the General page of the Layout Properties dialog you change the header text for a column, the column width, or the height of a row. In addition, you can see the grouping or aggregation value that has been applied to a column and the name of the column.

About this task

General formatting options apply to all cells in a query results column including the header cell, each detail cell, and the column's summary line cell.

To specify the General formatting options:

Procedure

  1. Open the Layout Properties window and click a column name branch. The General page opens within the Layout Properties window.
  2. The Heading field displays the name of the column as it appears in the query results. You can change the header text by typing a new name in this field.
  3. The Grouping and aggregation field displays the aggregation codes that have been specified for the column. If none have been specified, this field is not blank. This field is informational and cannot be modified.
  4. The Width field specifies the width of the column in pixels. You can change the width by typing a new number in the field.
  5. The Summary row height field specifies the height of the summary column (if aggregation is selected) in pixels. You can change the height by typing a new number in the field.
  6. The Source field identifies the column that is currently selected from the Layout Properties tree. If the selected column is a calculated column, the conditional expression that was used to create the results in the column is displayed. This is an informational field and cannot be modified.
  7. Click Apply to save the general formatting options that you have specified.