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Chapter 4: Display and Print Your Collections
The Collector’s Assistant contains extensive capability to view and print your
collection data.
Collection Listing Grid
The Collection Listing Grid displays the currently selected collection in a
spreadsheet like format consisting of one row per item. The user may control
the content, grouping sorting, and formatting of the grid. When a new
collection is created, no sort order is specified so new items will be added at
the bottom and the items will appear in the order in which they are entered.
You will probably want to set the sort order so that items appear as you
would like.
Print button on Controls Area
If a collection is currently open, clicking on the Print button will immediately
send it to the printer, otherwise the Report Manager will appear.
Grouping and Sorting
There are two ways you may specify how items are ordered within the
Collection Listing Grid. Either by direct manipulation of the column headings
or clicking on the Sort Coin button at the top of the controls area. Clicking
on the Sort Coin button will provide dropdowns to select up to 5 sorts and 1
grouping as well as a Save button.
Grouping and sorting may also be accomplished by direct manipulation of
the grid. You may drag a column heading to the area above the grid which
will then cause all items sharing the same value to be grouped together.
Sorting is accomplished by clicking on a column heading. Multiple sorts can
be accomplished by holding down the shift key as you click on column
headings in the order in which sorting is to occur. You may save a sort by
clicking on Collection->Save Sort Order.
Note - the order in which data is catalogued is not important. The
sorting/grouping which may be changed at any time enables you to view and
print the data in the desired order.
Format of Collection Listing Grid