CHAPTER 20Presenting Data with Access Reports
Reports provide a great way to view and print data from your database. You can display information highly summarized, with a lot of detail, or anywhere in between, and you can view or print your information in many different formats. You can add multilevel totals, statistical comparisons, and pictures and graphics to a report.
In this chapter, you learn to use the Report Wizard as a starting point. You also learn how to create reports from scratch and discover what types of reports you can create with Access.
Introducing Reports
Reports present a customized view of your data. Report output is viewed onscreen or printed to provide a hard copy of the data. Very often, reports provide summaries of the information contained in the database. Data can be grouped and sorted in any order and can be used to create totals that perform statistical operations on data. Reports can include pictures and other graphics as well as memo fields. If you can think of a report you want, ...
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