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It is recommended that if you are customizing a layout for your office or making changes to an existing layout in use by other reports, that you create a copy of the layout you intend to edit and modify that copy. We do this for two reasons:

 

1.Changes made to an existing template will be made in every report that uses this layout, which is usually not the intent.
 

2.If you make changes directly to a corporate-created template, then there is a very good chance that your changes will be overwritten by the next restore or import of a report that uses a Report View that contains this chapter layout if you choose to do a Replace during that restore or import.

 

To avoid either of these from occurring, follow these steps:

 

1.Open the layout you would like to copy.
 

2.Click the [Save As…] menu button.
 

3.Give the layout a brief, but descriptive name.

 

4.Click [OK].
 

5.A copy of the layout will be saved with all the text and formatting intact.