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Introducing reports

Introducing reports - Microsoft Access Tutorial

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Introducing reports

- Reports prepare your data for printed output. They gather input records from tables and queries, then add formatting and page layout capabilities in order to organize the data and make it more legible. As you can see on the Create tab up here, we have several different ways that we can create reports. They share many of the same design principles that we've already seen when creating forums, including the same use of control objects and a very similar Design and Layout view. The easiest way to get started creating a basic report is to use the one-click Report button here at the very beginning. First, we want to make sure that we've got our data source selected over here in the Navigation Pane. We're going to build a report off of the CheckinDetails query that we've created earlier. So, go ahead and make sure that that's selected, and then up here in the report section press the button that says, "Report." Access creates the report and places us in Layout view. You can tell we're in…

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