Join Adam Wilbert for an in-depth discussion in this video Populating pre-printed documents, part of Access 2010: Forms and Reports.
We've been hearing of the so-called paperless office for quite some time now,…but that promise is yet to become a reality.…There's just no getting away from having to fill in paper documents sometimes.…Luckily with a little planning and help from Access we can streamline some of…the process when it comes time to filling in preprinted paper documents and…forms with information from our database.…For this exercise we'll look at populating information about our employees into…a preprinted government employee form such as this form i-9.…The first thing we need to do is get an image of our preprinted document.…We can get this image in a number of ways;…you can scan it in using a scanner or export it from a PDF file.…
However you do it for the best printed quality you should capture your image at…300 pixels per inch.…It's also important that it's not scaled.…Next, we need to prep this image a bit to overcome what I consider to be a bit…of a quirk with Access reports.…In Access you can't set page margins to zero, so if we put an image of our…
Author
Adam Wilbert
Released
2/14/2012- Designing for the end user
- Organizing form elements
- Formatting a form
- Adding headers
- Linking to external content
- Entering and selecting data
- Adding charts
- Creating a main menu
- Creating a customer form
- Understanding report structure
- Building reports from wizards and queries
- Printing reports
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome59s
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1. Introduction to Forms
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Introducing forms2m 41s
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Exploring the database1m 49s
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2. Form-Design Basics: Creating a Directory
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Organizing the form elements7m 14s
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Formatting4m 48s
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3. Form and Report Controls
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Introducing form controls3m 48s
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Using lines and rectangles2m 48s
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Adding buttons5m 3s
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Linking to external content4m 15s
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Attaching documents6m 49s
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Attaching images5m 8s
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Adding charts7m 9s
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Linking controls7m 41s
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4. Getting around the Database
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Creating the main menu8m 49s
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Creating a customer form7m 18s
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5. Report Layout
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Grouping and sorting data4m 36s
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Formatting conditionally6m 59s
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Calculating fields4m 35s
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Adding the finishing touches4m 49s
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6. Printing, Tweaking, and Automating
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Printing reports3m 6s
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Tweaking the design7m 10s
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Conclusion
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Next steps58s
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