Zoom Percentage and Zoom In/Out
The Zoom Percentage control shows various steps of zoom. When you use the magnifying glass buttons to zoom in or zoom out, the steps by which you zoom are those shown in the zoom percentage control. You may manually set (by typing it in) the zoom percentage to any value between 10 and 1000. Note that when you are selecting a value for the zoom percentage control, and it has the focus, using the PageUp and Down key, as well as the up and down arrows, apply to the zoom percentage and not to the report being displayed. In other words, you can cycle through the zoom percentages by using those directional keys.
This button on the toolbar will be grayed out (inactive) if the report being previewed does not contain any text—i.e., is all images and/or graphics. To initiate a text search, click on this button and enter the text to be found in the resulting dialog box.
APEX includes an Export to Excel function which is initiated via a button of that name on the toolbar. There is also a button for setting the export preferences.
Print As Application Intended
This is rather an odd function to see in a Windows program, so a bit of explanation is in order.
Reports that are generated by A-Shell programs frequently are sent—by the report program—directly to a PC printer. In addition to the report, those print instructions include information for the printer, such as the name of the printer, number of copies, etc. However, APEX intercepts the report and (a) stops it from going directly to the printer, and (b) allows the user to now print the report using different parameters than the report program specified. Which is fine, and of course the user can print as he/she wishes.
But she might decide what she really wants, after looking at the report, is for it to be printed how the report program originally intended. Unfortunately she doesn't know what the report program intended; perhaps it was going to print six copies on a network printer called "Laser45."
By using this oddly-named button and function, the user can make sure that the report is handled and/or processed and/or printed as the original instructions intended.
If you do not need this function, just use the regular print operation.
See Preview File Retention for information on what files may be opened and how they got here.
When you click this button, you will see a standard Windows file open dialog. Unfortunately, the list of file names that you see is probably not enough information to figure out what report it is you want to see. On the file open toolbar, you should see an icon near the top of the dialog box called Views, and one of its options is "details." If you click on the details icon, you should be able to see a little more information about the files. You may click on the column headers to sort by those columns in any effort to fine the report you're looking for. Unfortunately, not much information is available to you here, so you'll just have to open as many reports as it takes to find the one you're after.