Web Report Development

Hi,
This is my first day using Oracle Reports and I had a couple of questions.
Is there any kind of design view for creating web reports similar to the Paper Layout tab for designing paper reports or do we have to do most of the work using the Web Source tab and manual coding?
If we design a Paper Report is there any way to convert it to a web report?
Thanks

If you use the wizards and select both paper/weblayout, then both layouts are generated. Aren't they? But if you created one paper layout, there's no way to convert it into a web layout. Why do you need both anyway? And paper layout, that's HTML/PDF etc, are most sufficiant in most cases.
Martin

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Doc ID: 372624.1 Type: PROBLEM
Modified Date : 07-JUN-2006 Status: MODERATED
In this Document
Symptoms
Cause
Solution
This document is being delivered to you via Oracle Support's Rapid Visibility (RaV) process, and therefore has not been subject to an independent technical review.
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