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CHAPTER 12
Working with Crosstabs
About this chapter
This chapter describes how to build crosstabs.
Contents
About crosstabs
Cross tabulation is a useful technique for analyzing data. By presenting
data in a spreadsheet-like grid, a crosstab lets users view summary data
instead of a long series of rows and columns. For example, in a sales
application you might want to summarize the quarterly unit sales of each
product.
In DataWindow Designer, you create crosstabs by using the Crosstab
presentation style. When data is retrieved into the DataWindow object, the
crosstab processes all the data and presents the summary information you
have defined for it.
An example
Crosstabs are easiest to understand through an example. Consider the
Printer table in the EAS Demo DB. It records quarterly unit sales of
printers made by sales representatives in one year. (This is the same data
used to illustrate graphs in Chapter 15, “Working with Graphs.”)
Topic Page
About crosstabs 333
Creating crosstabs 337
Associating data with a crosstab 338
Previewing crosstabs 344
Enhancing crosstabs 344