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Introduction to Impromptu

Duration: 2 Days

Audience: New Users to Impromptu

Brief:
The course covers an overview of the Impromptu catalog, which presents a user’s view of the database in a logical business manner. Hands-on workshops throughout the course provide attendees with the ability to apply Impromptu techniques to create basic reports. The skills of selecting data, filtering, sorting and grouping, highlighting exceptions, and creating basic calculations and summaries will be taught. Finally, users will learn how to add finishing touches including colors, borders, graphics, and fonts to make their reports more effective.

Course Notes:
This class is sometimes delivered in 1 day if the students are familiar with reporting and databases. 2 days allows more time for typical students to absorb the material and work through the exercises without feeling rushed.

This course can be delivered using an Impromptu demo database, or upon request your instructor will utilize your own database and catalogs as the basis for the workshops, examples, and class discussion. There is an additional fee for customization of the course materials.

Recommended Prerequisites:
None, although familiarity with Microsoft Windows is beneficial for this course.

Glasses
Topics:

bullet Introduction to Impromptu
• Catalogs, folders, columns
• Menus and icons
• Using templates to create reports
• Screen layout vs. page layout
• Saving reports
• Opening existing reports

bullet List-Style Reports
• Adding data
• Moving and sizing columns
• Report layout
• Controlling data access

bullet Filtering the Data
• Creating filters
• Creating prompts

bullet Enhancing the Appearance of Reports
• Formatting objects
• Editing column titles
• Adding exception highlighting

bullet Organizing Data
• Sorting
• Grouping
• Headers and footers
• Adding summary data

bullet Adding Report Functionality
• Working with calculations
• Using functions

bullet Frame Base Reporting
• What is a frame?
• Inserting frames
• Changing frame properties

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