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In this tutorial, we just familiarize ourselves with the Report Design cycle.


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Each time we choose 'Design Layout', we get to open the Editor for this Report, and to work with the Layout.


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Here we can make further changes to our Report, as many times as we like.


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After making changes, we save the latest Layout and exit the Editor.


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Next, we always choose 'Read Layout' here so that DocWriter can learn the latest layout from what we have done during editing. If for some reason we do not want to read the latest version, then we can just exit this screen, and we will still have what we had before choosing 'Open Editor'.


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An 'Interim Save' after any changes is always a good idea.


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If we have made changes, we will probably want to use 'Find New Tags', and this function will not only find new Tags but will also sense Tags that have been dropped from the Layout.


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Tags 5 and 6 are new, from the last editing session.


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So we can work on the Tags, exit DocWriter, re-enter, and choose 'Design Layout' again at any time.


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Once again we can make changes if we want.


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Tags 5 and 6 have actually been dropped from the Layout, but DocWriter will not recognize this until we choose 'Find New Tags' again.


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And now the redundant Tags have been removed.


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So there we have the regular cycle:  as we make progress with a Report, make more changes, etc.


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