Beginner's Guide to Crystal Reports 2016: A Quick Start Guide, Paperback

Fourth Edition - The Beginner's Guide to Crystal Reports 2016 was written as a quick-start guide for beginners, and not intended as a comprehensive reference manual. The beginner-level skills of Crystal Reports are easy to learn and can be achieved within a few hours of hands-on learning. With an established data source connection, learning and using Crystal Reports 2016 is as easy as using Microsoft Office. Learn how to setup a data connection, examine a data structure, create a new report, add data fields, format a report, add pictures, charts and create formulas. See how to filter data, setup user parameters and create a summary report with drill-down features. This book demystifies the complexity of learning Crystal Reports and presents it as a user-friendly application. This book is currently used in corporate training focused primarily for non-programmers to extract system data and create basic reports. This book is intended to provide the reader the basic skills at creating simple reports and the confidence to learn additional skills independently. This book is NOT a reference manual.