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Chapter 37 Customizing Tables, Forms, and Reports
Building Great Forms and Reports
Access provides a design and development environment that gives you extensive control over
the appearance and functionality of forms and reports. The tools you use for either task are
remarkably similar. The differences typically reflect the different design goals of forms and
reports, as explained here:
■ A form is a formatted database object, generally used to display one record at a time in
an onscreen window. Forms are most commonly used to create convenient fill-in-the-
blanks windows for entering or editing data; in this case, you use a table or query as the ...