Describe the ways to refine the design of a report.
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Refining the Report Design: The design of the report created by any of the methods may be improved upon by making the following additions and modifications to the report. For this purpose, an existing report is opened in design mode.
1. Adding Date and Page Numbers: When an existing report is opened in design mode, the page footer of the report contains two unbound controls. The current date and current page number of total number of pages.
Both the controls may be customised according to the requirement of the designer. The data control uses == Now () function to retrieve the current date from RTC of computer. The format of date may be modified by selecting General date, Medium date, Short date or Long date from format property of this control.
2.Adding and Deleting Report Controls: After a report has been designed, additional report controls may be added or deleted by the same procedure as applicable to forms. Clicking tool bar icon opens report design tool bar, which contains a set of useful controls.
(i) After opening the report in design mode, click Field List button on report design tool bar. This results in opening the field list window.
(ii) Drag the field into an appropriate section of the report. The field appears with both label and text box control. The label part gives a constant field heading while the text part provides different values of the field. These two parts are accordingly placed at the appropriate sections of the report.
(iii) A field control may be deleted by selecting the control and pressing the Delete key.