The Report Designer allows you to format your document layout and to create your own reports. All documents and reports created and edited in the Report Designer are saved with a Report File (*.frp) file extension. This powerful Report Designer also allows the advanced user to link the data in the Database of a Set of Books to be displayed on documents and reports.

When documents (Invoices, Credit Notes and Quotes for debtors (customers) and Purchase documents, Supplier Returns documents and Orders for creditors (suppliers)) are printed and sent to the screen, it will automatically be displayed in the FastReport™ viewer.

- When any document is displayed on screen in the FastReport™ viewer, you may also right-click on any area of a report to edit the report in the Report Designer.

- All layout files (default as well as any layout files created or edited in the Tools→Report Designer menu option) which exists in the Reports folder in the TCASH3/Bin directory, or Bin folder of the directory in which TurboCASH is installed on your system, will be listed.

To Access the Report Designer:

1. Click on the Tools→Report Designer menu option.
   - Keyboard Access: Press the Alt+T+R keys on your keyboard.
   The Report Designer screen is displayed:
   
   
2. You may edit the layout of the document where necessary.
   - Save the Document layout file with a different name. Do not work or edit in the original layout file. If anything corrupts the layout file, you may then easily re-use the original layout file.
   
   
3. Once finished editing the document layout file, click on the Close button.

To get help in the Report Designer, you may -

1. Click on the ?→Help contents menu option.
   - Keyboard Access: Press the F1 key on your keyboard.
   This will launch the Help Topics: FastReport on which you may find the necessary help topics.
2. Click on the ?→Help tool menu option.
   - Keyboard Access: Press the Shift+F1 keys on your keyboard. This will launch context sensitive help.

You may use the following options to manage layout files, and to edit layout files:

1. File menu
   1. Open - To open a layout file.
   2. Save - To Save the layout file.
   3. Save As - To save the layout file with a different name and / or elsewhere on your system.
   4. Variable list - To select and set variables and values from the Database in the Set of Books.
   5. Report options - Set the printer options for the report or document.
   6. Page options - Paper size and orientation (i.e. Portrait or Landscape) Margins (left, right, top and bottom) Options, columns and column gaps.
2. Edit menu - Use the commands to cut, copy, paste, delete, select all, undo and redo, bring to front and send to back to manage data, fields and objects in the Report Designer.
3. Tools menu - Set the options and tool bars for your working environment.