- [Justin] Sometimes we need a hard copy
of our report results to share with our colleagues.
Let's look at printing reports in SAP.
We'll enter the list of sales orders report
using transaction code va05.
We'll run our report without entering any selection criteria
by pressing execute.
Now we'll enter the print preview function.
To do this, we'll go to More, List, Print Preview.
Our print preview screen gives us a slightly different look
than our normal report results page,
but we're happy with how everything looks here,
so we'll press Print.
We must set up our Output Device.
We'll click the match code button
and press Start Search.
For the purposes of this demonstration,
we're going to print to PDF, so we'll choose
output device PDF1 and click Copy.
We also want to ensure that our print time
is set to immediately.
We're ready to print, so we'll choose continue.
We get a dialogue box
saying that our formatting has been set.
This is fine, so again, we'll press continue.
Windows now opens a print dialog box for us.
Because we want to print to PDF, we want to ensure
that our printer is set to Microsoft Print to PDF.
We're ready to print this so we'll press OK.
Our report results have now been printed to PDF
and we must navigate to the PDF to open it.
We'll right-click and choose Open with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Our PDF is similar to how the report would look printed
on a sheet of physical paper.
Printing reports in SAP comes in handy when we need
a hard copy to share our results the old fashioned way.