Sections are the design areas which you use to build your report.
Crystal Reports by default provides five main sections:

• Report Header – fields placed in this section are printed once, at the beginning of the report
• Page Header - fields placed in this section are printed at the beginning of each new page
• Details – fields in this section are printed with each new record
• Report Footer - fields placed in this section are printed once, at the end of the report
• Page Footer - fields placed in this section are printed at the bottom of each new page

More sections will appear if you add groups or simply insert new one.

Working with sections

To insert a new section you need to:

• Click Section Expert button in the top menu. Section Expert contains a list of all sections in the report
• Select section and click insert. New section will appear after the section you have selected. If there are more than one section of a kind, there appear with lettered a, b, c and so on

To delete a section:

• Open Section expert
• Select section you want to delete
• Click Delete. Note that you can only delete section if there are lettered. In mean that you cannot delete sections originally provided by Crystal Reports

To move a section (change sections' order):

• Open Section Expert
• Select section you want to move
• Use up and down arrows to change order of the sections. Although the alphabetic order of sections is the same, their data and display order is changed

To merge sections you need to:

• Open Section Expert
• Move sections so the sections you want to merge fallow each other
• Select the top section
• Click merge. Section will be merged with section that is next on the list

To split sections:

• Click on the on the boundary of the section you want to split. Horizontal line that splits section will appear
• Drag-and-drop it to the place where you want to split section