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Edit a report in Design view

Edit a report in Design view

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Edit a report in Design view

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- [Instructor] For complete control over your report layout, you're gonna wanna explore the report Design view. Many of the features that we went over with forum design also apply to the design of reports, which makes it easy to apply what we already know. However, reports have a structure that's distinct from most forums, which adds another aspect to their construction. Most forums display only a single record at a time. Reports display many records, one after another. Right now, I have the Check In Details Report opened up in just the standard report view and I'm gonna go over and switch into Design view. To do that, I'll use the bottom portion of the View Split button on the Home tab and we'll come down and choose Design view. Now, when you first switch into Design view, you might be surprised at how short this report looks. The nature of a report is that there are several sections, but they get stacked one on top of another over and over again. We only have to design each piece of…

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