Hour 20. Reporting with Access 2003

This hour shows you how to create custom Access 2003 reports. Access includes several reporting tools, both automatic and manual, that produce complex reports . You can create a simple report by clicking a toolbar button. If you spend a little time developing the report with a report wizard, you can create extremely professional-looking reports.

You do not have to master the Report Design view, an extensive and complex report-creating tool, to create most of your reports. Some people have never used the Report Design view to design an Access report from scratch because of the report wizards' power. The report wizards give you complete control over a report's design.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

How to create report queries
How AutoReport creates simple reports
Which report wizards Access supports
How to use the main report wizard to generate virtually any report you need by making a few selections
When to request summary statistics
Why you should preview reports