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Organize records with group and sort

Organize records with group and sort

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Organize records with group and sort

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- [Voiceover] Access's way of preparing material and data for the printed page is through the report object. Reports take data from tables and queries, applies formatting and organizational rules, and bundles all of it together into documents that are ready to be sent to a printer or a PDF file. In this movie, we're gonna take a look at how Access organizes data into grouping and sorting levels. If you've ever used the Totals row within the query then this may seem somewhat familiar as the concepts are really similar. Let's get away from the H Plus Sport database for just a moment here and take a look at this sample database that's built around a standard deck of playing cards. In this database, I have a table here called Draw, and if I open it up and take a look on the very bottom, we'll see that I have 5,000 individual records. Each of these records represents a random card pull from that deck of cards. So for instance, up here at the very top, the very first card we drew out of the…

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