Learn to create informative reports using Seagate Crystal Reports software at your own pace! This book gets you started. It is intended for busy professionals who need to extract information from databases they work on. It is not intended for programmers.

Starting with no previous report-writing experience, the book will lead you step by step to creating simple reports, selecting records, and creating subtotals and grand totals. It goes on to show you how to sort and group your records and create summary reports.

The second half of the books provides some of Crystal’s finer points. You will learn how to export your reports to HTML, Word and Excel and manipulate Crystal’s special fields such as date and page number. After that you will learn how to transform your data using Crystal’s formula language. Finally, you will learn how to create mailing labels and how to link tables in your database.

A total of 14 chapters and 340 pages of step-by-step information that will help you transform your data into information.