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Introducing reports

Introducing reports - Microsoft Access Tutorial

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Introducing reports

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- [Instructor] Reports prepare your data for printed output. They gather input records from tables and queries, and then they 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, we have a number of different ways that we can create our reports. They share many of these same design principles that we've already seen when working with forms, including the same use of control objects and very similar design and layout views. The difference between a form and a report is that reports are ideally used to prepare a document for printing, so you wouldn't expect to edit data or have interactive buttons on a report, like you would find on a form. The easiest way to get started with a basic report is to use the one-click Report button here on the Create tab. First, you want to click on the table or the query that you'd like to build the report off of. I'm going to go into the navigation pane and select the…

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