Class Session: Thursday Jan 01, 1970
Access Guide to Designing Reports Help
You can build reports that pull data from several tables and present that manipulated data as a paper product.
It's a way to retrieve and present selected information stored in your database in a format that will be printed rather than viewed on a computer monitor.
Reports provide a snapshot of your database (or a part of your database) each time a report is generated. A well-designed report can be used over and over.
If you want to create a simple report that is a duplicate of a particular table or (more likely) a simple select query, create a report based on that table.
You then will see what the printed report will look like, but it might have taken some formatting work in the design view to make this happen.
If you want to modify the report's appearance, you may do it in the WYSIWYG design view or you may choose to be more precise and exact by working within the report object's properties.
select the Wizard
Using the Wizard dialog boxes, you can combine data from multiple tables and/or queries into a report. If you do use multiple tables/queries in the report, the Wizard will ask you to select the primary item on which the report will be based ...
... and will ask you how you want the data grouped below the primary item ...
... and decide how to display the data in the sections of the report.
If the data can be manipulated by some sort of math operator, you will have the opportunity to perform summary operation in the form by selecting the appropriate option ...
... which will insert selected functions into the design.
It will then guide you through setting up the display properties ...
... and then carry you through the print view ...
... from which you can alter the appearance by using the design view.