Chapter 15. Preparing Advanced Reports

Access 97's Report Wizard can create reports that you can use "as is" or modify to suit most of your database reporting requirements. In some cases, however, you might have to create reports that are more complex than or differ from those offered by the Report Wizard. For example, you might have to apply special grouping and sorting methods to your reports. Including subreports within your reports requires that you start from a blank report form instead of using the Report Wizard.

To understand fully the process of designing advanced Access reports, you must be familiar with Access functions, which is one of the subjects of Chapter 9, "Understanding Operators and Expressions in Access." You also must understand ...

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