Report Break Formatting

Can someone please point me to examples of using the various report break formatting options under Report Attributes? Screenshots of this in action using various options would be highly appreciated.
The online field help (http://tinypic.com/m8z920.jpg) is not enough to fully understand the capabilities provided.
Thanks.

This is from: Linnemeyer, Lawrence C., and Bradley D. Brown. Oracle HTML DB Handbook. Emeryville, CA: McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2006. 222-224. 
This description taken directly from the book and is for version 2.0. 
Limitations: "...Only break on one, two, or three columns, and they must be the first columns in the report. The second limitation is that you are fairly restricted in formatting the breaks." 
"The Break Formatting section of the Report Attribute page provides the input fields for controlling report breaks. The first field, Display This Text When Printing Report Sums, is always active and is used whenever you select the Sum check box for a numeric column in the Report Column Attributes section. If you do not provide text in this field, the HTML DB engine will automatically include the label "report total:". The Breaks field defaults to No Breaks and allows you to select to break the report on the first column, the first and second columns, or the first, second, and third columns. Once you select a value other than No Breaks, the remainder of the columns will be enabled. 
The next field, Display This Text on Report Breaks Using #SUM_COLUMN_HEADER# Substitutions, is the way you can format what is displayed when a report breaks to show subtotals. If you leave the field blank, the HTML DB engine will automatically display on the break rows “columnheading total:”. You can customize what is displayed using this field. Use the substitution variable #SUB_COLUMN_HEADER# to reference the header of the break column. Unfortunately, the current version (version 2.0 at time of printing) does not allow you to reference the value of the break column. 
The first and last field in the center section of the Break Formatting section can be used to format a row before and after the break row, respectively. Unfortunately, with the way they are currently implemented, you must provide the complete HTML code for the row. For instance, if your report has five columns, you would enter something like: 
< t r >< t d >first col< / t d >< t d colspan = “3” >< t d >last col< / t d >< / t d >< / t r >
 
The center field is used to format the actual break column. The formatting entered needs to be the HTML for a column and can use the #COLUMN_VALUE# substitution variable, like this: 
< t d align=right >#COLUMN_VALUE#< / t d >
 
Note that all the columns in the row will have the formatting applied to them. 
The final two fields provide you two different options for displaying the first column break. The field Identify How You Would Like Your Breaks to be Displayed has two possible values: Default Break Formatting and Repeat Headings on Break. The Repeat Headings on Break option causes the first breaking column to be reported as a heading with the column headings for all the remaining columns repeated after each break.” 
Thanks,
Joe

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Can anyone please direct me to documentation or have an explaination on the Break Formatting options in the Report Attributes section? The online text does not contain enough detail or examples for me to understand.
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The initial discussion I've looked at for this is in the Applications Express User's Guide (the Help link from APEX). Look under Home -> Controlling Page Layout and User Interface -> Customizing Templates -> Report Templates.
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