Join Adam Wilbert for an in-depth discussion in this video Building reports from queries, part of Access 2007: Forms and Reports.
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 their results into the Reports…Record source, you'll create a good foundation from which report design becomes…just a matter of dragging and dropping fields into the appropriate locations.…I said this before about Access, but sometimes all of the wizards and automated…object creation features of the program can really get in the way and 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, really is the way to go.…For this exercise, I have gone ahead and pre-built a query called…TotalSalesCustomers.…Let's go ahead and open it up and take a look at it.…This query takes each customer and finds their total lifetime spent with the…company. We also have a field here that shows what state each customer lives in.…
Author
Released
2/15/2012- Designing for the end user
- Organizing form elements
- Formatting a form
- Adding headers
- Linking to external content
- Entering and selecting data
- Adding charts
- Creating a main menu
- Creating a customer form
- Understanding report structure
- Building reports from wizards and queries
- Printing reports
Skill Level Intermediate
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Access 2007: Shortcuts
with Alicia Katz Pollock3h 25m Intermediate -
Access 2007: Queries
with Adam Wilbert2h 8m Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 1s
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1. Introduction to Forms
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Introducing forms2m 56s
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Exploring the database2m 7s
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2. Form Design Basics: Creating a Directory
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Organizing the form elements10m 9s
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Formatting the form6m 19s
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3. Form and Report Controls
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Introducing form controls4m 37s
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Using lines and rectangles4m 10s
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Adding buttons4m 19s
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Linking to external content4m 33s
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Entering and selecting data6m 42s
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Attaching documents5m 59s
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Attaching images5m 27s
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Adding charts4m 34s
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Linking controls8m 52s
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4. Getting around the Database
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Creating the main menu12m 29s
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Creating a customer form9m 13s
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5. Report Layout
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Grouping and sorting data3m 35s
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Formatting conditionally2m 31s
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Calculating fields5m 18s
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Adding the finishing touches4m 24s
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6. The User Experience
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Printing reports3m 50s
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Tweaking the design9m 20s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m
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