Specified Order tab

The Specified Order tab appears whenever you select in specified order as a sort order from the Insert Group dialog box or the Change Group Options dialog box.

Use the Specified Order tab when you want to set up custom groups. Custom groups are freeform groups that are not necessarily triggered by any one field value. You define the groups and you specify the individual values that belong in each.

Named Group

Use this box to enter the name you want for your specified order group.You can also browse and select values in the database field to use as group names. For example, if you are creating specified groups to represent regions in the USA, you might look at the list and choose Alaska and Hawaii to be regions of their own.

The box below displays the fields you have selected and the groups you have created as specified order groups.

Up arrow

Click this button to move the highlighted group higher in the list.

Down arrow

Click this button to move the highlighted group lower in the list.

New

Click this button to open the Define Named Group dialog box where you can create a new named group. If you entered a new name in the Named Group list on the Specified Order tab, it appears as the Group Name on the Define Named Group dialog box.

Edit

Click this button open the Define Named Group dialog box where you can edit a group you've highlighted in the Named Group list.

Delete

Click this button to delete the highlighted group.

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Format Cross-Tab dialog box



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