The reports can also be generated in formats that can be opened by applications like Excel, in addition to be displayed on the screen, be printed, or written on a disk as an ASCII file, and viewed and edited with any word processing application. The report unit to be used is specified on the Report Unit field located in the report screen. The Report Unit field contains the Screen, Printer, ASCII File, MS Excel File, MS Access, HTML File, PDF File and Table options. Table reports can be taken as "Pivot Table" also.
When report unit is selected as "Excel", the report is printed to that tabling program files. The report is recorded to a CSV extended file after giving a name.
Once the report unit is selected, the report characteristics are specified. The options of the Unit field are used to specify the unit characteristics.
Screen: The report is displayed on the screen.
Printer: The report is printed.
ASCII File: The report is written on an ASCII file. The file properties, end of line, end of line characters, whether or not the fixed column widths will be used, and the column separator information is recorded in the relevant fields.
Excel: The report is given a name and written into an XLS file.
MS Access: The report is given a name and written into an mdb file. This file can be opened and edited with the MS Access application.
HTML File: The report is given a name and written into an HTML file.
PDF File: The report is given a name and written into a PDF file. This file can be viewed with the Acrobat Reader application.
Table: The report is written on a table. All the fields and contents of the report are transferred into the table. The table can be saved in one of the XLS, txt or HTML formats.
Pivot Table: Using pivot table reports you can arrange, summarize and analyze the data you enter without using any tools as excel. These reports constitute new appearances of work page data in a few seconds.