Chapter 17. Power Report Techniques

In Hour 12, “Creating Reports,” you learned quite a bit about the process of building reports. During this hour you'll go a step further and learn about the power techniques that help the experts build more complex reports than those you built in Hour 12. In this hour you'll learn the following:

  • How to use report and control properties

  • How to insert page breaks

  • The differences between bound, unbound, and calculated controls

  • How to use expressions to enhance reports

  • How to base reports on data from more than one table

  • How to work with sorting and grouping

Other Properties of a Report

A report has 12 Other properties (see Figure 17.1); these miscellaneous properties, described in the following text, allow you to control ...

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