Customising your practice styles

Statutory Reporter comes with a set of default report style options, or style sets. These options control the look of your reports, including fonts, colour, spacing and ruled lines. You can set up your own style sets so that your reports have a consistent look-and-feel that reflects your practice.

You can either clone an existing style set (which will allow you to create a style set based on an existing style set), or you can create a new style set from the default settings.

To create a new style set by cloning an existing style set

Select Maintenance > Maintenance Map (AO) > Client Accounting > Practice Report Settings. The Practice Report Settings page opens.
Select Practice Style Sets from the TASKS bar. The Practice Style Sets window opens. For MYOB AO, if you don’t have the Practice Style Sets option on your TASKS bar, contact Support to enable this feature.
Click Clone Style Set. The Practice Style Set – Clone window opens.
Select a style set to clone from the drop-down list. The list will include all master style sets as well as your saved practice style sets.
Click OK. The selected style set displays in the Practice Style Sets window.
Click Style Set Name in the right panel, and type a name for your new style set in the corresponding field.

The name must be unique.
For each style that you want to change:
1. Select the style name style in the left panel. The style’s settings will display in the right panel.
2. Update the settings.
For information on the style settings, see Reportstyles.
When you have finished the settings for your new style set, click OK to save the changes. The Practice Style Sets window will close, and your changes will be saved.

To create a new style set from the default settings

Select Maintenance > Maintenance Map (AO) > Client Accounting > Practice Report Settings. The Practice Report Settings page opens.
Select Practice Style Sets from the Tasks bar. The Practice Style Sets window opens. For MYOB AO, if you don’t have the Practice Style Sets option on your TASKS bar, contact Support to enable this feature.
Click New Style Set button. The default style set is displayed on the Practice Style Sets window.
Click Style Set Name in the right panel, and type a name for your new style set in the corresponding field.

The name must be unique.
For each style that you want to change:
1. Select the style name style in the left panel. The style’s settings will display in the right panel.
2. Update the settings.
For information on the style settings, see Reportstyles.
When you have finished the settings for your new style set, click OK to save the changes. The Practice Style Sets window will close, and your changes will be saved.

To edit a style set

Any changes you make to a style set only affect reports you generate from this point on.

Select Maintenance > Maintenance Map (AO) > Client Accounting > Practice Report Settings. The Practice Report Settings page opens.
Select Practice Style Sets from the TASKS bar. The Practice Style Sets window opens. For MYOB AO, if you don’t have the Practice Style Sets option on your TASKS bar, contact Support to enable this feature.
In the left panel, click + next to the name of the style set you want to edit. The list of styles for this style set will display.
For each style that you want to change:
1. Select the style name style in the left panel. The style’s settings will display in the right panel.
2. Update the settings.
For information on the style settings, see Reportstyles.
When you have finished the settings for your new style set, click OK to save the changes. The Practice Style Sets window will close, and your changes will be saved.

Report styles

Each part of each report has an associated style. For example, there are styles for page headings, section headings, descriptions, balances, total lines and so on. These styles are grouped by Style types, which define the properties that make up the style.

The following table lists the styles and describes the way they are used in the reports.

Styles are not used in the same way across all reports. Some trial and error may be required to identify the exact style used for each report component.

Style type	Style	Used for...
Page Header	Page Header 01	Highest level page header. Usually for the Client Name at the top of each report page.
	Page Header 02	Second level page header. Usually for the ABN (where required) and the report name near the top of each page.
	Page Header 03	Third level page header. The second line of the report heading, usually for year ended…. text.
Page Header	Page Header Compilation Report 01 Page Header Compilation Report 02 Page Header Compilation Report 03	As per descriptions above. Changes made to these fields will only affect the Compilation Report. See Defining the top margin of the Compilation Report.
Heading	Note Heading	Notes on the Notes report pages
	Section Heading	Section headings in various tabular reports, such as account groups in balance sheets and income statements
	Section Heading with normal text	Not currently used
	Sub-Heading	Heading text in some reports – mainly in the Notes section.
Balance	Balance with space before	Not currently used
	Normal balance	Regular balance lines on reports
	Normal balance – Indent description	Regular balance lines on reports where the description text is indented to the right
Total	Grand Total	Grand total lines for report sections
	Sub-Total	Secondary total lines for report sub-sections. This is rarely used.
	Total	Regular total lines for report sub-sections.
Paragraph	Cover Page	First part of the report cover page containing the client’s name
	Cover Page 02	Second part of the report cover page containing the report name
	Heading	Heading text in some reports – mainly in the Notes section.
	Paragraph	All general paragraph text is reports
	Table of Contents Heading	The heading for the Table of Contents page
Page Footer	Page Footer	Text in the page footer at the bottom of each report page
Table Of Contents	Table of Contents	Lines in the table of contents
Column Heading	Column Heading	The row of column headings at the top of most tables of balance data. This is usually the year for the reported balances.
Table Header	Table Header 01	Table headers in the Schedule of Property, Plant and Equipment reports