Depending on which mode you are using, OfficeReports will hide specific irrelevant functionality, and when creating tables OfficeReports will use the default Analytics layout when using Analytics Mode and use the Reporting layout otherwise. You can easily switch mode by checking it in the OfficeReports ribbon tab. Below we will tell in detail what the difference is between the Analytics Mode and the Reporting Mode.
You should use the Analytics mode when you want to analyze the data. The final report will be the workbook.
In Analytics Mode, the 'Report Builder' and the 'Utilities' are hidden from the UI. Tables are created in the layout you have specified as the default for this mode. Tables in an Analytics layout look like the tables you can produce in other cross-tab tools, as you can see on the picture here.
You should use the Reporting Mode when we know what we have to report in a PowerPoint presentation, which will be you final report. In Reporting Mode, it is not possible to create summary reports and it is not possible to create charts in Excel. Even if we want to report charts in PowerPoint, we will create tables in Excel and use them to 'populate' the charts in PowerPoint.
Tables in the Reporting layout are optimized for populating tables and charts in PowerPoint. It will mostly be possible to create tables only containing the information we want to visualize in PowerPoint. Since we usually still would like to see 'base' information, the category names row is repeated so the range containing the data we want in PowerPoint is still easy to select. So easy that our 'Report Builder' can do the work for you.
Note: Background colors in Excel can automatically be turned into significance arrows in PowerPoint.
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