From the course: Access 2019: Forms and Reports

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Build a report from a query

Build a report from a query

From the course: Access 2019: Forms and Reports

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Build a report from a query

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- [Narrator] Building a report off of an existing query is probably the easiest way to get a great looking report, that displays some fairly complex information from your database. By leveraging the power of queries and feeding those results into the report's record source, you'll create a good foundation from which report design just becomes a matter of dragging and dropping fields into the appropriate locations. I've said this before about Access, but sometimes all of the wizards and automatic object creation features of the program can really get in the way and just make things more confusing than they really are. Once you understand what's going on behind the scenes, it's often the case that hand-built from the ground up is really the way to go. For this exercise, I've gone ahead and prebuilt a query called Customer Lifetime Sales, let's open it up to take a look. Here we have a record for each customer in the company. We have their customer ID, first name, and last name, as well…

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