Variant for multiple reports

Hi Experts,
Does anyone know if it's possible to create variants that serve for multiple reports? If so, how?
I have 10 very similar reports which use the same selection screen defined in an include for all of them.
Regards,
Simon

Hi,
It is not possible to create variant for multiple reports as it is said as
you must create a separate variant for each report and then save it with the report where the values will be used.
refer this line in the link
http://web.mit.edu/SAPR3/docs/webdocs/reports/rpRFvariant.html

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