Using the Grid style

The Grid presentation style shows data in row-and-column format with grid lines separating rows and columns. With other styles, you can move text, values, and other objects around freely in designing the report. With the grid style, the grid lines create a rigid structure of cells.

An advantage of the Grid style is that you can reorder and resize columns at runtime.

Original Grid report

This grid report shows employee information. Several of the columns have a large amount of extra white space:

The columns for the grid report have extra white space to the right of the data, and only six columns fit in the display, Employee I D, First Name, Last Name, Street, City, and State.

Grid report with modified column widths

This grid report was created from the original one by decreasing the width of some columns:

The modified sample for the Grid presentation style shows data in row-and-column format with grid lines separating rows and columns, but with reduced white space that allows a seventh column of data, Phone, to fit on the display.