Microsoft® Access 2003 Forms, Reports and Queries

Chapter 13. 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

• Fancier Report Formatting

Building a basic report isn't difficult, as you've seen. If you use the AutoReport feature 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 be good enough ...