# Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control > TX Text Control supports WYSIWYG flow-type layout reporting where creating templates mirrors writing documents in MS Word. The TX Words template designer handles tables, images, headers, footers, column layouts, and connects to SQL, Access, ADO.NET, and ODBC data sources. - **Author:** Bjoern Meyer - **Published:** 2012-12-07 - **Modified:** 2026-07-17 - **Description:** TX Text Control supports WYSIWYG flow-type layout reporting where creating templates mirrors writing documents in MS Word. The TX Words template designer handles tables, images, headers, footers, column layouts, and connects to SQL, Access, ADO.NET, and ODBC data sources. - **4 min read** (722 words) - **Tags:** - Tutorial - **Web URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2012/12/07/flow-type-layout-reporting-with-tx-text-control/ - **LLMs URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2012/12/07/flow-type-layout-reporting-with-tx-text-control/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2012/12/07/flow-type-layout-reporting-with-tx-text-control/llms-full.txt --- ![Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_reporting_top.webp "Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control")Are you tired of explaining complex report designers to your end-users? Are you looking for an easy-to-use way of creating powerful reports? TX Text Control provides the solution: **WYSIWYG Flow Type Layout Reporting**. Creating a report is as simple as writing a letter in MS Word. With the **TX Text Control Words™** Template Designer, that comes with full Visual Studio sources, your users can create templates with typical word processing features such as tables, images and headers and footers. In contrast to complex report designers, users can use their MS Word skills to create beautiful reports - no steep learning curve. WYSIWYG Template Design ----------------------- [![Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_wysiwyg_1_zoom.webp "Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control")](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_wysiwyg_1_zoom.webp) When creating a new template, you can choose from typical word processing features such a headers and footers, column-layout, tables, paragraph styles or page borders. Like in MS Word, you can see how the report will look like when designing the template. You can even import existing MS Word documents from various formats such as DOC, DOCX, RTF or PDF. Your users will see the final report while designing it. The TX Text Control Words Template Designer comes with full sources as a Visual Studio project and can be completely customized or integrated into your own application. Powerful Data Connection ------------------------ [![Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_wysiwyg_2_zoom.webp "Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control")](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_wysiwyg_2_zoom.webp) [![Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_wysiwyg_5_zoom.webp "Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control")](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_wysiwyg_5_zoom.webp) Creating powerful hierarchical reports is the strength of TX Text Control. Nested repeating blocks with master-detail relationship views can be easily inserted. It doesn't matter what's repeated in the block: A table row, paragraphs, images or text frames. There are no limits. TX Text Control Words implements an out-of-the-box data connection wizard to connect to all types of databases including MS SQL, Access, ADO.NET or ODBC. You can easily insert merge blocks from the recognized database tables. A preview mode allows you to step through the database records to see your template in action. Add 2D and 3D Charting to Your Reports -------------------------------------- [![Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_wysiwyg_3_zoom.webp "Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control")](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_wysiwyg_3_zoom.webp) Powerful data visualizations in a report or any other document are essential to get the "big picture". Charts indicate trends and can be used to attractively visualize large volumes of data. Bars, donuts, pies or financial series - more than 30 fully programmable diagram types can be added. This concept allows you to create true WYSIWYG templates for your reports. The size and style of charts are added at design-time and merged dynamically. Export to PDF, MS Word or Print ------------------------------- [![Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_wysiwyg_4_zoom.webp "Flow Type Layout Reporting with TX Text Control")](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/12/07/a/assets/flow_wysiwyg_4_zoom.webp) TX Text Control supports the most important industry standard formats such as DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, PDF and PDF/A. You can digitally sign and encrypt Adobe PDF and PDF/A documents or print them directly from your application. How to Get Started? ------------------- Download a 30-day fully featured trial version of TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms or WPF, start the pre-compiled **TX Text Control Words™** Template Designer and create your first reports. [Reporting Tutorial ](# "Fully Featured, 30 Day Trial Versions") --- ## About Bjoern Meyer As CEO, Bjoern is the visionary behind our strategic direction and business development, bridging the gap between our customers and engineering teams. His deep passion for coding and web technologies drives the creation of innovative products. If you're at a tech conference, be sure to stop by our booth - you'll most likely meet Bjoern in person. With an advanced graduate degree (Dipl. Inf.) in Computer Science, specializing in AI, from the University of Bremen, Bjoern brings significant expertise to his role. In his spare time, Bjoern enjoys running, paragliding, mountain biking, and playing the piano. - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjoernmeyer/) - [X](https://x.com/txbjoern) - [GitHub](https://github.com/bjoerntx) --- ## Related Posts - [Windows Forms Tutorial: Create Your First Windows Forms C# Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/08/26/windows-forms-tutorial-create-your-first-windows-forms-csharp-application/llms.txt) - [How to Mail Merge MS Word DOCX Documents in ASP.NET Core C#](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2023/10/16/how-to-mail-merge-ms-word-docx-documents-in-aspnet-core-csharp/llms.txt) - [Creating an Angular Document Editor Application with a Node.js WebSocket Server](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2023/08/24/creating-an-angular-document-editor-application-with-a-nodejs-websocket-server/llms.txt) - [Adding SVG Watermarks to Documents](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/01/28/adding-svg-watermarks-to-documents/llms.txt) - [Using MailMerge in ASP.NET Core 6 Web Applications](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/01/27/using-mailmerge-in-aspnet-core-6-web-applications/llms.txt) - [DocumentViewer for React Prerelease](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/10/27/document-viewer-for-react-prerelease/llms.txt) - [New DocumentViewer Signature Tutorial Sample](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/08/18/new-documentviewer-signature-tutorial-sample/llms.txt) - [Creating an ASP.NET MVC DocumentViewer Application With Razor](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-aspnet-mvc-documentviewer-application-with-razor/llms.txt) - [Creating Your First Windows Forms Application with C#](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-your-first-windows-forms-application-with-csharp/llms.txt) - [Creating Your First WPF Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-your-first-wpf-application/llms.txt) - [Creating a WPF Ribbon Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-a-wpf-ribbon-application/llms.txt) - [Integrate Document Editing into any HTML Client using the HTML Widget](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/integrate-document-editing/llms.txt) - [Creating an ASP.NET MVC Application With Razor](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-aspnet-mvc-application-with-razor/llms.txt) - [Creating A Windows Forms Ribbon Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-a-windows-forms-ribbon-application/llms.txt) - [Creating Your First ASP.NET Reporting Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-your-first-aspnet-reporting-application/llms.txt) - [Creating an ASP.NET Web Forms AJAX Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-aspnet-web-forms-ajax-application/llms.txt) - [Creating a WebSocket Server Project with Node.js](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-a-websocket-server-project-with-nodejs/llms.txt) - [Creating an Angular Document Editor Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-angular-document-editor-application/llms.txt) - [ReportingCloud .NET Core Quickstart Tutorial](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/07/24/reportingcloud-dotnet-core-quickstart-tutorial/llms.txt) - [Document Permissions and Password Encryption](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/07/05/document-permissions-and-password-encryption/llms.txt) - [New Online Sample: Build your First Report](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/07/03/build-your-first-report/llms.txt) - [Create your First Document with ReportingCloud](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/02/19/create-your-first-document-with-reportingcloud/llms.txt) - [MailMerge: Starting Each Merge Block on a New Page](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/09/09/mailmerge-starting-each-merge-block-on-a-new-page/llms.txt) - [Windows Forms and WPF: End a List on Return when Line is Empty](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/08/26/windows-forms-and-wpf-end-a-list-on-return-when-line-is-empty/llms.txt) - [Using IFormattedText Objects to Access Elements Across All TextParts in a Document](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/08/25/using-iformattedtext-objects-to-access-elements-across-all-textparts-in-a-document/llms.txt)