Organizing data in a report : Aggregating data : Adding and removing an aggregate value : How to aggregate data

How to aggregate data

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Select the column containing the data to aggregate. From the right-arrow menu, choose Aggregation. Aggregation appears. The syntax of the selected function appears in the lower part of Aggregation, as shown in Figure 4-14. From the Select Function menu, select the aggregate function to use.
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Specify a sort direction for the resulting aggregation. If you select Ascending or Descending from the Sort drop-down list, the groups appear, in ascending or descending order in the report. Select none if you do not want to sort the groups in any order.

Figure 4-14  Aggregating the Total column as an average
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Select table level to aggregate data across all the rows in the table. Select either header or footer as the location in which to display the aggregate data.
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Select a group from the next drop-down list to aggregate data at the group level. Select either header or footer as the location in which to display the aggregate data.
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To create a second aggregation, choose Add aggregation. Repeat Step 3 to Step 4 to define the aggregation. Choose OK. Figure 4-15 shows the three aggregations defined for the report.