Access the Style Designer by selecting the Style Designer icon in the Home tab of the ribbon.
Fig. 1 – Style Designer Access
The Style Designer allows for the creation and editing of styles in reports. Styles and their collections impact the appearance of reports.
See Figure 2 for a breakdown of the Style Designer Dialog.
Fig. 2 – Style Designer Interface
The Toolbar features commands used in Style Designer.
The Primary pane features a list of styles and collections.
The properties panel, or the “Object Inspector,” of the selected style.
This panel describes the currently selected property.
The Formatting panel is for styles. It contains the standard controls for formatting components.
Toolbar
Fig. 3 – Style Designer Toolbar
The Actions menu contains basic commands to control styles and style collections:
Open – Through this selection, the user can open a previously saved file with a list of styles and style collections.
Save As – Used for saving style and style collections to the *.sts file.
Create Style Collection – Used to create an automatic collection of styles.
The Add Style menu features the styles that are available to be added.
Used for deleting a style or collection from the list.
Select a component in a report > Open the Style Designer > Select this button. The style of the selected component will be copied.
Used for filtering and sorting.
The search field is helpful for quickly locating a style.
Context Menu
To open the context menu, right-click in the list of styles:
Fig. 7 – Context Menu