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Reports Breaks can be used quite productively to segmentize and subtotal a Report.

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For this Report, we do not have any Breaks specified at the moment.

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And we see that the output runs in an unbroken list to the end, with a single total at the end.

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Now we will include a single Break.

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And this time, we have a neat Line Break at the end of each Category, together with a sub total per Category.

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And at the end of the Report we still have the Grand Total.

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So we can say that the Break fulfills a good function for this Report.

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We can have multiple Breaks also, and the only difference between a Break and a Page Break is that a Page Break will cause the start of a new page after a break.

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And it is quite important to ensure that the Breaks are also included in the Sorts, in order to produce the desired result.

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