From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports

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Create a form letter

Create a form letter

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Create a form letter

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- One final way we can leverage reports to help organize the information stored in the database is in the preparation of standardized business correspondence or form letters. By creating these types of documents right inside of the database, we can fill in customized information directly without having to export anything to an external program. This keeps your users firmly inside of your well-designed database application without the need to switch out to accomplish common tasks. Let me show you what I mean by creating a common human resources document, the Employment Verification Letter. We'll start the process by going to the Create tab and starting a new report in Design View. First, I'm gonna get rid of the page headers. I'll right click and get rid of those. Then, I want to set the width of my document to the width of a standard piece of paper which is eight inches. I'll click on the Details section and we'll set the height property to 10 and a half inches. Then, I want to change…

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