Rules and examples of high-quality reporting?

Question

Design

As in any other corporate information system, in ours, data on the work of departments is analyzed through various reports.
In fact, these are dull tables with black text and black cell border lines. There is a desire to turn them into something more pleasing to the eye, but at the same time not to distract users' attention to design, since the main task of reports is to provide information.
Who can suggest resources with successful examples of tabular reports design or articles with tips on reporting design?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Look here: http://office.microsoft.com/ru-ru/templates/
By the way, maybe we will do something like that too - if it appears, wait for the announcement in our blog: DevExpress Blog on Habré

Answer 2

Download themes for PowerPoint or another program. Usually helps.

Answer 3

MS Excel - there are many templates with beautiful formatting