Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Chapter 9: Presenting Data with Access Reports

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FIGURE 9.20

Layout view of a new report based on tblProducts

Layout view enables you to see the relative positions of the controls on the report’s surface, as well

as the margins, page headers and footers, and other report details.

The main constraint of Layout view is that you can’t make fine adjustments to a report’s design

unless you put the report in Design view. Layout view is primarily intended to allow you to adjust

the relative positions of controls on the report and is not meant for moving individual controls

around on the report. For example, the icon that appears in the upper-left corner of the report

shown in Figure 9.17 can be deleted by clicking on the icon and pressing the Delete button, or

moved to another location by dragging it to a better location on the report’s surface.

While in Layout view, you can also right-click any control and select Properties from the shortcut

menu. The Property Sheet allows you to modify the default settings for the selected control.

Figure 9.21 shows the Access ribbon while a report is open in Layout view. Not surprisingly, the

options on the ribbon are mostly involved with adjusting the appearance of the controls on the

report.

FIGURE 9.21

The Access ribbon while a report is open in Layout view

In Figure 9.21 notice that you can’t adjust the fine details of a control, such as its height or width,

but you can adjust the font used for the control, the font size, the BackColor, and the ForeColor of