Preparing the Printout
Inserting and Deleting Individual Variables

Usually, general sample data, such as the sequence name, the corresponding Datasource, the user name, etc. appear at the beginning of a printout or in addition to a table or a chromatogram.

To insert an additional variable

  1. Enable Layout Mode on the Edit menu.

  2. Select a single cell and then select Insert > Chromeleon Report Variable on the Edit menu.

  3. In the Select Report Variable dialog box, select the variable category from the Categories list and then select a variable from the Variables list.

  4. Clicking OK includes the variable into the selected cell.

  5. To indicate that the variable is a Chromeleon object, a red triangle appears in the upper right corner of the cell.

  6. To modify the appearance of the variable, select the respective cell and then select the corresponding command on the Format menu.

To delete a variable

To delete a variable, it is not sufficient to delete the value indicated in the edit line. Proceed as follows:

  1. Select the cell for which you want to delete the contents.

  2. Select Clear on the context menu or press the Del key on the keyboard. The Clear dialog box appears.

  3. Select the Values option to delete only the values. Select All to delete the formats as well, e.g., the frames assigned to the cell. Click OK to clear the cell.

  4. Check whether the clear action was successful. Click a different cell and then click the cell again, for which you wanted to delete the contents. The edit line is updated for this cell. If the clear action was successful, the edit line does not contain any information.

 Notes:

Cells containing an underlying variable can be recognized by the formula name that is displayed in the status line whenever the cell is selected, for example, peak.height. If the selected cell contains only text, the status line is empty.

You cannot insert new variables by entering the corresponding formula, for example, smp.name for the sample name. Chromeleon interprets formulas that are entered in this way as pure text. Thus, only the text 'smp.name' appears in the edit line and not the value of the formula, i.e., the name of the corresponding sample.