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		<title>Exporting to Excel when you have a subreport.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exporting Crystal Reports to Excel can be tricky. I have written several articles on techniques to make it easier. But it gets even trickier when a subreport is involved. Without a subreport I have found that you can get a clean export by using the &#8220;Data Only&#8221; option. But this doesn&#8217;t work with a subreport. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you have your reports backed up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every few months one of my customers will ask me if I have copies of their reports.&#160; Usually a hard drive crash or some other system failure has made some or all of their reports disappear.&#160; Only then do they realize that they have no backups.&#160; When I work on reports in my office I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confusion over 32-bit and 64-bit ODBC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All versions of Crystal Reports up to v12 (2008) need to use the 32-bit ODBC Administrator. But in Windows 7 you are taken to the 64-bit Administrator by default.&#160; A couple of years ago I wrote about this.&#160; Today after helping a customer I learned a few more strange things about the ODBC Administrator that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating the text-shadow effect with Crystal Reports fonts</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2347</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a clever tip I just received from a blog reader who is also a Crystal Reports developer. He wanted to create a title with something that looks like the &#8220;text-shadow&#8221; property.&#160; He found that using an image didn&#8217;t print as clearly as a true font so he came up with a clever way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t start your formula names with spaces.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Formula names can contain any characters you want, including numbers, symbols and spaces. But I just found a reason not to use a space as the first character of a formula name. A customer recently tried to modify a formula in an old report, and was prompted to log into the repository. She sent me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making SQL commands more efficient</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2340</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In most cases I find it more efficient to let Crystal generate the SQL for reports.&#160; This makes the reports simpler for most CR users to create. &#160;It is also easier to add additional fields, and the Visual Linking window makes the query structure easier to understand. Finally, in most cases, the performance is essentially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a hanging indent</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2264</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes there are text blocks on your reports that contain more then one line of text (notes, memo fields, comments, etc.).&#160; When you format any multi-line text field, you have a tab of options called&#160; &#8216;paragraph&#8217; formatting. The first 3 settings on this tab allow you to determine how far the text block should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case sensitivity in Crystal Reports &#8211; revisited.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always mention case sensitivity in my Crystal Reports classes. My normal comment is that CR formula comparisons are case sensitive with the exception of the selection formula, which is usually NOT case sensitive.&#160; I even wrote about this here, last month.&#160; So I was surprised last week in my Advanced class when our formulas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamic parameter limit on &#8220;list of values&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2316</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crystal limits how many values you have to choose from when you use a dynamic parameter.&#160; The default limit is 1,000.&#160; To show more than 1000 values you have to add a registry key called &#8216;LOV&#8217; in the CR path for Database options.&#160; This needs to be done on each PC that will be running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange printer behavior at runtime</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/2314</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my customer sent me two screen shots. One showed a normal preview on his development machine. The other showed a preview window on the runtime machine. The second had the group tree, but the report was nothing but a long blank vertical strip. He had been struggling with it for a month and [...]]]></description>
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