F. Scott Barker’s Microsoft Access 2002 Power Programming

Chapter 11. Creating Powerful Reports

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Creating Summary, Detail, and Summary/Detail Reports from the Same Report 314

• Creating Dynamic Groupings for the Same Report with QBF 320

• The Elusive Feature: Creating Snaking Reports 323

• Printing Multiple Topics Through a MultiSelect List Box 328

• Creating a Wizard-Like Interface for Selecting Group-By Items 335

• Formatting Reports Dynamically 347

For the most part, day-to-day reports are easy to use and don’t need any code at all. Even creating reports by using subforms isn’t that tough and can be figured out pretty quickly. Some things, however, might not be quite as straightforward and need a bit of code:

• Using the same report for your summary, detail, and summary/detail reports

• Creating dynamic groupings ...