Once an object is selected, you can press the Property Window button (or press F4, or use the right mouse button and the context menu) to display and edit its properties. You can also double-click an object to display its properties.
When one or more fields are selected, the property window will show property values that all fields have in common, and will leave the other properties blank. If no fields are selected and you click on a section (or on the bar above a section), the section properties will be displayed. If you click the gray area in the background, the Report properties will be displayed.
To see how this works, double-click the label in the Header section and change its Font and ForeColor properties. You can also change a field's position and dimensions by typing new values for the Left, Top, Width, and Height properties. The property window expresses all measurements in twips (the native unit used by VSReport8), but you can type in values in other units and they will be automatically converted into twips. For example, if you set the field's Height property to "0.5in", the property window will convert it into 720 twips.