Format for Printing

To bring up the Format Print (Table) Dialog Box, either choose Page Setup from the File menu or right-click anywhere on the table and choose Format Print (Table).

The Format Print (Table) Dialog Box allows you to change the appearance of the selected table on the printed page. Note that changes made in this dialog will only be visible when the file is printed or viewed in print preview. Changes made using Format Print (Table) only apply to the current table. To change the printed appearance of all tables in the file, use the Preferences Dialog Box available from the Edit menu.

The Format Print (Table) Dialog Box has the following settings:

Stubs: Controls where stubs will be placed on the printed page. There are four options:

• Left side, standard (default): place stubs along the left side of every page. If the table is wide enough so that some of the columns go onto a second page, stubs will be placed on the left sides of both pages.

• Left side, facing pages: place stubs along the left side of the page but only for the first page of facing pages. If the table is wide enough so that some of the columns go onto a second page, no stubs will be placed on the second page. If the table columns all fit on one page then this is the same as Left side, standard.

• Left and right sides, standard: place stubs on both the left and right sides of the page for every page. If the table is wide enough so that some of the columns go onto a second page, stubs will be placed on the left and right sides of both pages.

• Left and right sides, facing pages: place stubs along the left side the first page of facing pages and on the right side of the second page of facing pages. If the table is wide enough so that some of the columns go onto a second page, stubs will be placed on the left side on the first page and the right side of the second page. If the table columns all fit on one page then this is the same as Left side, standard.

Boxhead Frequency: Controls where the boxheads will be placed on the printed pages. The box head is the area at the top of the table that contains the stub heads, column heads and spanners. You can set the boxhead frequency to any of the following:

• Top of each page (default): Places a boxhead at the top of every page of the table.

• No boxheads: No boxheads will be placed at all.

• Top of table only: Only place the boxhead on the first page of the table and not any of the other pages of the table.

Page Margins: Allows you to set the top, bottom, left and right margins of the printed pages for the selected table. By default, margins are measured in inches although you can change it to centimeters by choosing "metric measurement" in the Format (Application) Dialog Box. Use the "Make Equal" button to set all four margins to the currently selected number.

Folio Text: Allows you to set header and footer text for each page of the selected table. The header and footer each contain left, center and right portions that can be set separately by entering the desired text in the corresponding edit box.

You can modify the fonts used for the header and footer by clicking the Font buttons. The top Font button applies to the header and the bottom button applies to the footer.

You can place the current date, current time, page number and file name in any of the header or footer sections by clicking on the appropriate buttons below the header and footer edit boxes or by adding the following text into the appropriate header/footer edit box:

By default, CSPro places the filename in the left header, the date in the right header and the page number in the center footer.

Start Page: Sets the page number to use on the first page for page numbering. If this is set to 1, then the first page of the table will be page 1; the second page will be page 2, etc… If it is set to default then the first page of the selected table will be one greater than the last page of the previous table in the file so that the numbers continue from one table to the next with no gaps. For the first table in the file, if the start page is set to default, then the page numbering for that table will start at page 1.