Reports and data access pages are what you use to retrieve and display information in your database. In this chapter we show you how to set them up.

In This Chapter:

Creating a Report

Michael is now well-versed with basic MS Access concepts, such as tables, forms, and queries. His next step is to build a report.

Customizing a Report

The report is ready. But Michael would like to modify the way the data is displayed. To do this, he needs to go back to the Design View and save the report as rpt:emergency.

Data Access Pages

MS Access was originally designed to be the premier desktop database application development tool for Microsoft Windows. But today there are features in MS Access that allow you to access the data stored in your application database on Web pages.

Create data access page in Design view

This shortcut initializes the data access page development environment and displays a blank page.