From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports

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Format the report in Design view

Format the report in Design view

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Format the report in Design view

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- [Voiceover] So already we can see that we've got a fairly clean and legible report going on here. At this point the functionality is there and working fine it's just time to start taking a look at some of the refinements that we can make. One of the things that I want to do is make my report wider to take full advantage of the piece of paper that it's gonna get printed on. Then, I want to remove the boxes from all the different data fields. I want to sort the data descending based off of the lifetime sales within each state and then I also want to change these field headers to be a little bit more legible across the top. Finally, if I scroll through my report we'll see that Alabama is here and we have all the details for Alabama. Then if I scroll down we'll find Alaska and we'll see the Alaska has a different color bar, it's this grey color. Whereas Alabama and we can see Arizona is white. I want to get rid of this alternating color scheme for the state names so that they're all…

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