Loading Styles

It is available to load ready styles to the styles table using:

Importing Styles

Ready styles are imported to the styles table from other styles tables and from internal styles tables of regular reports.

To import:

  1. Select the Import item in the Styles Table main menu. The following dialog box will be opened:

  1. In the Source drop-down list select a styles table or a regular report.

  2. The list of available styles will be displayed in the Style List list. Select with checkboxes the styles to be imported.

TIP. To quickly select checkboxes for several styles, select them with holding the CTRL key and select the Cancel item in the context menu. To select checkboxes for all styles, use the Select All item, to deselect checkboxes from selected styles - the Deselect All item.

The selected styles will be imported to the current styles table. If identifier of the imported styles matches an existent one in the styles table, the following dialog box will be displayed:

Select the action with style:

To apply the selected action for all imported styles having non unique identifier, select the Apply in All Similar Cases checkbox. If the checkbox is deselected, this dialog box is displayed every time the conflict occurs.

Exporting Styles

Styles can be exported to styles table from express reports, dashboards, regular reports and workbooks.

To export:

  1. Open a sheet containing styles created by user.

  2. Go to the ribbon tab used to set up visualizer and click the button from the group used to set up the style.

Tab and group name depend on visualizer. For example, for the table the tab is named Format and the group is Cell Style; for the chart the tab is named Chart and the group is Chart Style. To get the full information about visualizer, see the Data Visualizers section.

  1. Styles which can be exported are displayed in the Document Styles group. To export all styles from the group, select the Exporting to External Styles item in the button menu, to export only determined style, select the Exporting to External Styles item in the style context menu.

  2. Select the current styles table in the opened file selection dialog box.

  3. A confirmation request for adding selected styles to the styles table appears. Confirm it. Then you will be prompted to connect the selected styles table to the report. Confirm it, if it is required to use styles from the selected styles table in the current report.

Styles from the report will be exported to the selected styles table. If identifier of the exported style matches an existent one in the styles table, the following dialog box will be displayed:

Select the action with style:

To apply the selected action for all exported styles having non unique identifier, select the Apply in All Similar Cases checkbox. If the checkbox is deselected, this dialog box is displayed every time the conflict occurs.

See also:

Creating Styles Table