Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Chapter 9: Presenting Data with Access Reports

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Numeric data controls are right-aligned by default. Because they’re next to each other horizontally

and not above each other vertically, they can be left or center aligned. Although the repeating groups

of records are above each other, they’re separated by a wide space and left alignment is okay.

One task to complete is to change the picture control to make the picture fit within the control and

to add a shadow to dress up the picture and give it some depth. Follow these steps to complete

these tasks:

1. Select the Picture control in the Detail section.


2. Change the control’s Size Mode property to Stretch.


3. Select Shadowed as the Special Effect property.

Creating a report header

The Report Header section is printed only once for the entire report. The report header is the logi-

cal place to put things such as the report’s title, a logo, and the print date and time. Having this

information in the report header makes it easy for any user of the report to know exactly what’s in

the report and when the report was printed.

With the report open in Design view, the ribbon includes a Design tab. Within the Header/Footer

group on the Design tab are a number of controls that help you add important features to the

report’s header and footer.

For example, click on the Logo button, and Access opens the Insert Picture dialog box (shown in

Figure 9.38) for browsing to an image file to insert as the report’s logo. Virtually any image file

(.jpg, .gif, .bmp, and so on) is a candidate for inclusion as the report’s logo.

FIGURE 9.38

Browsing to an image file to use as the report’s logo