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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual
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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore
February 2005
Beginner to intermediate
608 pages
22h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Report Headers and Footers

You don't have free rein with what appears in report headers and footers, but you can choose from several fields common to all of them. For example, fields such as Company Name, Report Title, and the Date Prepared are options for a header, and page number is one option for a footer. To change the header and footer contents for the report you're working on, in the Modify Report dialog box, click the Header/Footer tab.

Tip

To set standards for all report headers and footers, open Report preferences (page 149) and then set the fields you want.

QuickBooks pulls data from your company file to automatically fill in the header and footer text boxes. For example, if you use a built-in Sales by Customer Detail report, the program fills in the Report Title box with—you guessed it—Sales by Customer Detail. If you have a more eloquent title for the report, type it in the box.

The Show Footer Information section provides one field for typing whatever you want. The Extra Footer Line represents text that appears in the bottom left corner of the report page. This text isn't associated with any field in QuickBooks, so it's blank unless you type something.

The last checkbox in both the Show Header Information and Show Footer Information sections controls the pages on which the headers and footers appear. To conserve paper, turn off the "Print header on pages after first page" checkbox, so QuickBooks includes the header on the first page only. If you want to omit the page number ...

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