Business Solutions Microsoft® Office Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries

7. Designing Effective Business Reports

IN THIS CHAPTER

Using Reports in Business

Ten Design Guidelines for Business Reports

Organizing Controls on the Report

Enhancing Report Text

Applying Fancier Report Formatting

From Here

Building a basic report isn’t difficult, as you’ve seen. If you use the Report command or the Report Wizard, you can build a serviceable report with just a few mouse clicks. If you use the Report Design view, Access offers all the tools you need to cobble together a custom design without much fuss. (This is particularly true if you’re already familiar with building forms from scratch, because the tools and techniques used in report-building are almost identical to those used in form-building.)

A “serviceable” report might ...