The Main Mercury Ribbon

The main ribbon is always present on Mercury’s main window.  It has two tabs: Home and Print Options.

The Home Tab

General

• Run - Runs the selected report. See Running Pivot Reports or Running Table Reports.
  
  
• Print - displays the report in a "Print Preview" window, so that you can see what it looks like and change your page layout before sending the report to a printer.  See Pivot Reports > Printing or Table Reports > Printing.
  
• Quick Print - immediately sends the report to your default printer, using your current Mercury print options.  See the section on Print Options below, and the article on Pivot Reports > Printing or Table Reports > Printing for details on print options.
  
  
• Export - Exports the current report results.  See Exporting Table Report Results or Exporting Pivot Report Results
  
  
• Save Favorite - Saves the existing report layout and formatting customization for subsequent re-use and sharing.  (This does not save the data - only the layout.)  See Pivot Reports > Favorites or Table Reports > Favorites.

Layout

• Split Horizontal - Creates a new horizontal result-tab group based on the currently selected report-result-tab.
• Split Vertical - Creates a new vertical result-tab group based on the currently selected report-result-tab.
  
• Restore Layout - Consolidates all report result tabs into a single group.

If your main window ever loses its result-area completely (with the report-list taking up the entire window), Ctrl-click the Restore Layout button on the Home ribbon. Mercury will reset the main window to the default arrangement.

The Print Options Tab (Common Sections)

Some sections in the Print Options tab vary based on whether you’re working with a pivot-report or a table-report.  Those report-specific sections are not shown in the example below. See Pivot Reports > Printing or Table Reports > Printing for details on report-specific printing options.

The common sections are General (for doing the actual printing), and Header / Footer, for controlling what you want to see.

General - buttons for print-preview and quick-print. See the Home Tab above for details; these buttons are exactly the same as the ones on the Home Tab.

Header on Report - content to include in the report header (every page). The Company Name and Logo are specified as part of the Mercury installation. Parameters will include the parameter values used to run the report. Favorite shows, if applicable, the name of the Favorite on which the report is based.  For more on Favorites, see Pivot Reports > Favorites or Table Reports > Favorites.

Footer on Report - content to include in the report footer (every page). User Name is your Windows login name. ID is the ID# of the report as shown in your main reports list.

Other Ribbons

For details on other ribbons - Appearance, Tools, and Pivot-Report and Table-Report menus - see related articles in this section.

• The Pivot Report Ribbon
• The Table Report Ribbon