Basic Report Design - Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services - page 86

You'll be taking a look at a number of these tools as you continue. The Report Wizard can also decipher
intelligent column labels from the column names. Note that each column header has a space between the
words that were delineated using capital letters, as in Figure 4-20.
Figure 4-20
Scale Units
Let's take a short break from the wizard and discuss some important information you need to understand
before you move on. Notice that these examples were created on a computer configured with US/English
regional settings. As a result, all of the scaling units are set to inches. If your computer is configured for
another culture or regional setting, your environment may use metric units.
It's also important to understand how a report fits onto a page. The report content fits onto a design
element called the Body . The report defines the page for printing and displaying purposes with associ-
ated margins. The relationship between these two design elements will be discussed shortly.
American SAE, pixels, and metric scale units may be used for the report, body, margins, and control size
measurements. The designer will automatically use either inches (in) or centimeters (cm) depending on
the current locale setting in Windows. This example uses inches with the default US letter 8.5in x 11in
page size. If you are using metric units or a different page size, please make the appropriate adjust-
ments. For example, if you are designing reports for A4 paper, the report width and height should be set
to 21.0cm and 29.7cm, respectively.