Appearance
- Last UpdatedOct 29, 2025
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Background Color – Specifies the background colour for the controls contained within the band. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar (
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Border Color, Border Dash Style, Border Width and Borders – Specifies border settings for report elements.
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Font – Specifies the font settings for the controls contained within the band. Some of these settings are available on the Formatting Toolbar.
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Foreground Color – Specifies the text colour for the controls contained within the band. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar (
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Formatting Rule Sheet – Displays the Formatting Rule Sheet Editor, enabling you to manage and customise formatting rules, which can then be defined for a report's bands and controls. For more information, refer to Conditionally Change a Control's Appearance.

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Formatting Rules –
Displays the Formatting Rules Editor which enables you to choose which rules should be applied to the band during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. For further information, refer to Conditionally Change a Control's Appearance.

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Padding – Specifies indent values used to render the contents of the controls.
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Page Color – Specifies the page background fill colour.
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Style Sheet –
Displays the Styles Editor window, which is used to manage and customise report style sheets.

For further information, refer to Store and Restore Style Sheets.
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Style Sheet's Path – Defines a path to the style sheet which is contained in a report style sheet file (.repss). For further information, refer to Store and Restore Style Sheets.
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Text Alignment – Enables you to change the alignment of a report controls' text. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar.
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Watermark – Customizes the report watermark options. For further information, refer to Create or Modify Watermarks of a Report.