Access 2019 Bible

CHAPTER 21Advanced Access Report Techniques

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Organizing reports to present the data in a logical manner
• Producing more attractive reports
• Providing additional information about the report
• Learning other approaches to enhance your presentation

In Chapter 20, you created attractive and useful reports by following a few simple steps. For most of your reporting needs, Access’ default reports will do just fine. Sometimes, however, you want more than the basic report layout. Perhaps you're trying to mimic an existing paper report. Or maybe you're trying to develop a consistent style in your organization that's different than the Access default report.

In this chapter, we show you some advanced techniques for changing the organization of your reports and adding interesting formatting and some tips for avoiding blank reports and working with controls.

See Chapter 20 for information on the basic process of building Access reports.

 

ON THE WEB

All the examples in this chapter can be found in the Chapter21.accdb sample database on this book's website. Please note that many of the figures in this chapter appear with the report Design view grid turned off to make the report design details easier to see.

 

NOTE

This chapter uses data from the Northwind Traders example database. The Northwind data is ideally suited for the example report described in ...