User Defined Reporting (Prompts) Problem

I'm running Crystal Reports XI R2. I want to write a report that uses user-input to determine the parameters of the report. The Crystal Reports Online Help says that, to do this, I need to employ "prompts" and that you do this by dragging the field you want to be the determining factor to the "Query Filters" pane.
Problem is, I've torn through this thing and, as far as I can tell, there is no "Query Filters" pane. Is that a BO thing? I'm not running BO, just CR. Is there a way to do this with just CR? Am I staring the "Query Filters" pane in the face, and I just don't know it? Help isn't helping on this.
Thanks!

Scarring it for life.
Actually, I was working with General Ledger data, so account numbers are made up of fund number, location number, department number, etc. all squished into one account number which the table I was reporting on was keyed by. Well, the Money Guys (TM) needed a report on all transactions in X fund, at Y location, in Z department. Those were my parameter fields that needed prompts. Well, you can't create a parameter field for a formula field (rats!) so I couldn't extract those parts of the account number and then filter on them, so I had to pull in a custom view from SQL Server that had the numbers broken down into their components and do parameter prompts on them.
For the record, I did NOT design this database.
Thanks again for the help!

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-------------- CUT HERE -------------------
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