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Edit a report in Design view

Edit a report in Design view

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Edit a report in Design view

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- [Instructor] For complete control over the report layout, you're gonna wanna explore the report's Design View. Many of the features we went over with form design also apply to the design of reports, which makes it easy to apply what we already know. However, reports have a structure that's distinct from most forums, which adds another layer to their construction. Most forums display only a single record at a time, while reports display many records, one after another. Let's go ahead and switch our Check In Details report into Design View and we'll see what that looks like. On the Home tab, I'll come up to the View button, I'll press the bottom portion of it and we'll switch to Design View. Now, you might be surprised at how short this report looks. The nature of a report is that there are several sections, but they get stacked one on top of another over and over again. We only have to design each piece of the stack one time and Access just repeats it as many times as necessary. We…

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