16. Working with Simple Reports and Mailing Labels

The final product of most database applications is a report. Access combines data from tables, queries, and—in some cases—forms to produce a report that you can print for people who need or request it. One of Access’s major selling points is its capability to generate fully formatted reports easily and quickly. No other report generator application comes close to rivaling Access’s flexible report-generation capabilities.

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XPS is a Microsoft open format that’s based on the Windows Presentation Foundation’s (WPF’s) Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). According to Wikipedia, OpenXPS ...

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