From the course: Access 2019 Essential Training
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Introducing reports
- [Instructor] Reports prepare your data for printed output. They gather input records from tables and queries and 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, there are lots of different ways to create a report. They share many of the same design principals that we've already seen when creating forms, including the same use of control objects and very similar design and layout views. The easiest way to get started creating a basic report is to use the one-click method that uses the button that simply says Report. First, though, you need to click on the table or query that you'd like to build the report off of. I'll choose the CheckInDetails query that we created earlier in the course, and then come up and press the button that says Report. Access creates the report and places us in Layout view. Just like with Forms, we can use the Layout view to alter the spacing and position of the report's…
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