Ten Minute Guide to Access 97

Reports

While forms are designed to be used onscreen, reports are designed to be printed. Reports are specially formatted collections of data, organized according to your specifications. For instance, you might want to create a report of all your clients, as shown in Figure 1.3.

Print Preview

Although you create reports so that you can print them, you can also display them onscreen in Print Preview, as in Figure 1.3. You'll learn how to view and print reports in Lesson 21.

Figure 1.3. You can print this report and distribute it to key employees in the company.