Overview of the Access Report Designer
Like forms, long ago in Chapter 2, “The Anatomy of a Real Database,” you were briefly introduced to the Access Report Designer. This chapter fulfills the promise of showing you how to use the Report Designer. Figure 12.1 illustrates a new instance of the Access Report Designer.
Figure 12.1. The Access Report Designer.
All report designers work in the same basic manner. Most take a “banded” design approach. In other words, when designing a report, you typically have page header and footer bands as well as detail bands. Figure 12.1 illustrates these three bands. The names of the bands accurately reflect ...
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