Building a template - groups and formulas

CR2008
I'm trying to build a template to standardize some reports. I can get the header and the formatting fine: however, when I created a formula for Page M of N, the formula disappeared, and the field was replaced with one of the header fields. Does this just not ever work, or am I missing something?
The documentation says "If an existing report is used as a template, these report objects will be applied to the new report: Fields, Groups, Summary fields". However, when I tried to save a grouping and apply it to an existing report, nothing happened - only the formatting came across.
Thanks for any and all help!
Edit: I added a TemplateField to my template and grouped on it, and applied it -- didn't work. However, when I then added grouping to the report, and re-applied the template, the new groups picked up the formatting from last time. When I added more groups than there were in the template, the newest groups were formatted the same as the last group I had specified. The Custom Group Name, which I had specified to be TemplateField2, (the same as the second grouping) still wasn't picked up, though. When I only specified a single TemplateField in the detail line, the Template Expert split the detail section into seven stacked detail sections, so that won't be much use.
So, the other question remains: am I completely out of luck with formulas? And functions, for that matter? Thanks again!
Edit again: I tried adding a Summary field to the template. While combining a text field and a summary field didn't work, dropping them next to each other did. Also, it only worked for the same summary: when I accidentally did a Sum instead of a DistinctCount, as the template was expecting, the formatting was ignored.
Edited by: Garrett Fitzgerald on May 7, 2009 3:03 PM
Edited by: Garrett Fitzgerald on May 7, 2009 3:34 PM

Hello Rashmi,
I'm not sure if I understood your question, but it seems you have to put your key figures in columns, together with time, if, for example, you want to show information like this:
.........................................................                                                                           06.2008      07.2008 ...
..........................................................                                                 kf1 kf2....      kf1 kf2
Org->Channel->customer->product  
Please let me know if is this you are looking for.
Best regards,
Sue

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    -- Now the group will change according to the parameter selected
    Please note that if you have different data types of fields you must need to convert totext()
    as If condition will allow only one data type output.
    Also when you insert any group by default the data is sorted on grouped field. If you want to sort on another field then you need to insert a summary field on that and go to report>group sort expert>select the field-->All based on the summary inserted.
    Hope this helps!
    Raghavendra

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