From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports

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Add a report header

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Add a report header

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- [Voiceover] No report should be considered complete without those finishing touches that make it a polished document. Things such as page numbers, date and time stamps, and logos help present a professional looking report. In this movie, we're gonna finish up our lifetime sales report by adding these elements. Let's go ahead and double-click on it to open it, see where we're at. We're gonna add in a report header section that'll appear at the very top of the very first page of our report. Let's go ahead and go into design view to add that in. Adding date and time stamps and page numbers is nothing more than adding in an unbound text box with a calculated control source, exactly what we did with these count and sum functions. We could add them manually and type in the expressions if we knew the proper syntax, but these finishing elements are so common that Access has buttons specifically for them built right into the ribbon up here in the header and footer section. Let's click on…

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