On 10/23/05, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Ryan > > > > On 10/23/05, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: > > > A good "report" will not be in a spreadsheet form. It will allow having a mix of display formats and formatted text, just as a > > > publisher progrsm does. Looking for primary export to be spreadsheet format assures a junior-scale program for reporting. > > > > Unless I'm wrong, I took Greg to mean the report would export to a > > spreadsheet, not that the report was a spreadsheet. > > How is that different? "to a spreadsheet" implies to me rows, columns, and cells format the same as being a spreadsheet. > > A report in my experience is more like a mailmerge document with tables, pie charts, database extracts, and spreadsheets imported to > the report or embedded within it. The report is the superset of formats, etc, and spreadsheet is only one subset type. I agree. Some / a lot of people like to be able to spit out the raw data that makes up the report and a spreadsheet is the most useful format, especially if your data is numberic in nature. In other words, the report may look like a spread sheet or may look completely different, but has some method to export the data that makes it up into a spreadsheet.