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Reports > Customising reports > Task 1: Select the data to be printed
You can filter the amount of information that appears in your reports by choosing which categories or ranges of data should be included. For example, if you want to print a Customer Payments (Closed Invoices) report for a customer for the months May to July, you can use filters to select just that customer and just those months.
You can filter the information that appears in a report in either the Report Customisation window or the Report Display window.
To filter reports in the Report Display window
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Go to the Reports menu and choose Index to Reports. The Index to Reports window appears.
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Click Display. The Report Display window appears.
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Click Redisplay. The report is refreshed with the new filtering options applied. To make further filtering selections, see below.
To filter reports in the Report Customisation window
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Go to the Reports menu and choose Index to Reports. The Index to Reports window appears.
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Click Customise. The Report Customisation window appears.
The bottom section has three tabs—Advanced Filters, Report Fields and Finishing.
The Advanced Filters tab lets you specify further limits on the data displayed (such as limiting records to those within a date range). The other two tabs are described later (see Select the required fields and Select finishing options).
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Using wildcards to filter reports
Asterisk: Use the asterisk in the Report Customisation window if you want to print a report for a specific group of records.
Example 1—If you want to print an Account Transactions report for all accounts whose account numbers begin with 1, you can use the asterisk wildcard to do so.
To include accounts whose numbers begin with 1, enter 1* in the Selected field in the Report Customisation window for the Account Transactions report.
Example 2—If you have several items whose numbers end in SVC (to indicate the items are service items), you can enter *SVC in the Selected field to print a report that includes only the items whose numbers end in SVC.
Question mark: The question mark wildcard allows you to limit your report to elements that contain only a specific number of characters.
Example 3—You want to print a Job Transactions report for the Cadwell Corporation. All Cadwell job numbers are three characters long and begin with the letter C. However, you have other jobs that start with the letter C and you don’t want those jobs to appear on the report. In the Selected field of the Job Transactions report’s Report Customisation window, enter C?? to limit the report to three-character jobs that begin with C.
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