Sunday, November 25, 2007

Changing Data in Access Reports

Once you've spent all this time to get your report formats just right, you'll want to be able to use the report more than once for different sets of data at different times/dates. This is very important for my use of Access.

Here's what I found about changing the data used in a report through Access Help.

Change the record source of the report

First open your report in Design view.
Select the whole report by clicking on the uppermost lefthand box (just to the left of the ruler).
If the property sheet is not displayed, press F4 to display it. (Or you can right click the mouse and choose properties.)
In the drop-down list at the top of the property sheet, click Report.
In the property sheet, click the Data tab.
In the Record Source drop-down list, select the table or query that you want to use for a record source, or click to display the Query Builder.
When you go back to report view you'll see the new data in your report.

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