8 Highlighting
When you create reports, you will often need to highlight important data. For example, a Sales Manager reading a report on sales and profit might appreciate the states providing maximum profit to be highlighted for quick analysis.
Style Intelligence provides the 'Highlight' (conditional formatting) function as a convenient means to make important data more noticeable.
Walkthrough
You will now explore all of the features available using the 'Highlight' function.
1. Open the 'Interactive' report.
2. Click the 'Ad Hoc' button on the toolbar to enter Ad Hoc mode.
3. Right-click on one of the sales figures in the 'Sales by Geography' section and select 'Highlight'. This opens the 'Highlight' dialog box.

In the 'Highlight' dialog box, you can select the table cell or row to highlight. This dialog box lists the highlights that are currently defined for the selection. (The table has an existing highlight called 'High'.)

You will now walk through the creation of a new highlight.
4. Click 'Add' and name the highlight “SampleHighlight”. Click 'Next'.

5. Define the following highlight condition: “Total is less than 300000.” Click 'Append'.

6. Click 'Next'. The next dialog lets you define the formatting to apply when the condition is met. Check 'Background', and choose yellow.

7. Click 'Finish'. Now the 'Highlight' dialog box shows the new highlight.

8. Click 'OK' to regenerate the report. Notice that the appropriate values are now highlighted.

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