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Crystal Training

Every month you key in a vast amount of data. Isn’t it time you gained some useful information for your company?

Reports, queries and graphics tailored to your needs… We can show you how!

Crystal Reports is the world’s leading Report Writer. It enables you to:

• Tailor reports, screen enquiries, graphs, export data to spreadsheets/e-mail /Internet
• Link information from different systems (eg. Accounting, MS Access, etc)
• Set up a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) “instrument panel” for your business.

The type of information you produce is only limited by your imagination. Do something for yourself to improve your skills and help your company.

Communicat provides the Crystal Reports training which shows you how to extract data from an Accounting System as well as MS Access and other tailored systems in your company. Our courses are “hands on” with one computer per student.

Day 1 – Concepts - Introduction – Report Design Basics

We teach you:

• General concepts of how Crystal works
• What it can and can’t do
• Formatting reports, queries and graphs
• Introduction to linking database tables and extracting information.

Pre-Requisite – A general level of computer literacy & familiarity with MS Windows.
Note – To link to accounting systems you need ODBC or MS SQL – please call for details.

Day 2 – Intermediate Report Design

This course gets you down to brass tacks on creating your reports:

• Linking tables
• Design realistic reports – e.g. financial, debtors, sales analysis, etc.
• “Drill downs”
• Sub-reports and linked reports.
• Setting up Key Performance Indicators for your business.
• Exception reporting – You can zero in on the “hot spots” in your business.
• Linking data from different systems.

Pre-Requisite – You must have attended the first day’s training course
An understanding of database tables would be an advantage.