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| FormatX
Uses |
Anytime
you have a set of data in Excel that you want to easily clean
up for printing
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Formatting
reports that are downloaded from your company database.
Supports comma - delimited (CSV) and tab-delimited
text files
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Automatically
formats
- Makes
headers from the filename
- Makes
footers (date time at the bottom left, "Page
X of Y" at the bottom right)
- Makes
borders around the text
- Bolds
headers and totals
- Right
justifies numeric columns
- Puts
lines above the totals
- Chooses
portrait or landscape and adjusts to fit an appropriate
number of pages
- Much
more
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| FormatX+
Uses |
| Used
to make a direct link from a data extraction program
to show the data in a formatted Excel spreadsheet |
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user running the data extraction program will not have
to start any program; just extract the data, and they
will have a formatted Excel spreadsheet |
Can
be used in three ways
- automatically
format in the same way FormatX does
- use
the default FormatX formatting, then add additional
formatting commands, e.g.
- Change
headers or footers
- Change
fonts and sizes
- Put
bold, underline, or italics anywhere
- Control
where borders are drawn and their thicknesses
- Change
the number of decimal places shown for numbers
- Right,
left, or center justify
- Much
more
- specify
all the formatting commands that FormatX will do.
Gives complete control to the programmer
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