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Part I: Basic Training
✓ You can really roll up your sleeves and design a new report — or play
with an existing one, adding all sorts of bells and whistles. Figure 1-5
shows this happening in Design view — note that the report’s title
(“Volunteers Report”) is selected: It has a box around it and tiny handles
on the corners and sides of the box, which means you can reformat the
title, change the font, size, or color of the text, or even edit the words
themselves if a new title is needed.
So, you can create any kind of custom report in Access, using any or all of
your database tables and any of the fields from those tables, and you can
group fields and place them in any order you want:
✓ With the Report Wizard, you can choose from several preset layouts
for your report, and it can all be customized row by row, column by
column.
✓ Office Themes (see the Themes button on the Design tab back in Figure
1-5) apply preset designs that affect fonts, colors, and other graphical
elements — automatically.
Figure 1-5:
You can
avoid
Design
view, but
to really
customize
things, you’ll
need it.
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