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Set Crosstab Properties

Format crosstabs to give them the appearance you want. You can specify formatting for rows, columns, and fact cells in a crosstab or for the entire crosstab. When you specify formatting for all rows, columns, fact cells, or the crosstab, the formatting is automatically applied to any new items you add.

Order of Styles Applied

If you apply the same styles, such as font color, to crosstab rows, columns, and crosstab intersections, the styles are applied in the following order:

The style applied to the last object in the list overrides styles applied to previous objects. In addition, class styles are applied before styles that you apply manually.

You can also quickly format crosstabs by applying table styles and add white space to a crosstab by inserting crosstab space objects .

Steps
  1. To format the entire crosstab, do the following:

  2. To format all rows, columns, or fact cells, click a row, column, or fact cell in the crosstab and then do the following:

  3. To format all crosstab cells for a specific row or column, do the following:

  4. To format all row or column titles, do the following:

  5. To format an individual row, column, or intersection, do the following:

Tip: In cases where fact cell formatting applied to rows conflicts with fact cell formatting applied to columns, you can set the Fact Cells Precedence property in the Properties pane to determine whether the row formatting or the column formatting has precedence. To set this property, click anywhere in the crosstab, click the select ancestor button in the title bar of the Properties pane, and click Crosstab.

For more information about formatting reports, see Laying Out a Report.