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Understand report structure

Understand report structure

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Understand report structure

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- [Instructor] The structure that Access uses to assemble the reports on the page is kind of like building a layer cake or maybe even blueprints for a skyscraper. There are multiple sections that get designed one time each and then Access uses that blueprint over and over again as it needs them for each section of the report. Let's take a look at how this works. I'm back in the H+ Sport database and I have a new query here called orders by month that I've created. Let's go ahead and open it up to take a look. It's just a summary query, it's counting up the number of orders that occurred in each month, region, and sub region within the company. For instance, if I wanted to take a look at all the orders that happened in January, that would be these records here with the record of month number one, and if I added up all these count of order IDs we'd see how many orders occurred in January. If I was only interested in the Midwest region in January, that would be these two records right…

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