Exporting Reports to HTML

You can export an Access report to HTML in a manner similar to that for table or query datasheets. Unlike static datasheets, exporting a multipage report creates multiple Web pages, one for each page of the report. Office 97 includes a special template, Nwindtem.htm in the ...\Office\Samples folder, specifically designed for reports. Nwindtem.htm, shown in Figure 17.17, includes hyperlinks to provide paging through of multipage reports.

Figure 17.17. The Nwindtem.htm template for exported Access reports.

Figure 17.18 shows the HTML source for Nwindtem.htm in Notepad. <META ...> tags provide HTML metadata to indicate ...

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