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How to Preview a Report

Reports can be viewed on the screen, printed to a printer or output to a file.

  1. Follow the procedure to produce your report.

  2. Click Print to open the Print dialog.

  3. Click Preview and the report displays on the screen.

The toolbar provides a number of buttons as explained here:

 

Toolbar icon

Description

Print allows the report to be printed directly from the Print Preview window.

Copy copies the current page to the clipboard for pasting into any compatible application.

Edit Report opens a text editor that provides functions like cut, copy, delete, paste, find, replace and so on.

External Edit opens Microsoft Word to change format and content. Exit from Word closes the Preview window.

Select the view percentage to zoom in or out.

Zoom in 

and Zoom out 
become available when the pointer is over the page.

Close closes the Preview window.

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The PDF button allows you to save your report as a PDF. Refer to Printing Tax Returns to PDF Printing.

If you have a customised Print Preview toolbar you must Reset it before you will see any new toolbar icon. Refer to How to Reset the Toolbar to the default setting. You must reapply customisation you still require.

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The Share It icon is greyed out unless you have Document Manager (DM) installed for storing reports. Refer to Auto saving to Document Manager.

If you have customised your Print Preview toolbar you must Reset it to see new toolbar icons. Refer to How to Reset the Toolbar to the default setting. You must reapply customisation you still require.

MYOB PDF Manager

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For details of MYOB PDF Manager read

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