From the course: Microsoft Access Essential Training (Office 2021/LTSC)

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Edit a report in Layout view

Edit a report in Layout view

From the course: Microsoft Access Essential Training (Office 2021/LTSC)

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Edit a report in Layout view

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- [Instructor] Let's work on cleaning up the Order Details by Customer Report and bring it into a final state of polish. The nice thing about the Layout View is that you can continue to work on the design of the report while simultaneously seeing it populated with live data. This allows you to fine tune the size and position of elements. And see how it affects the overall legibility of your document. I'll take this report and using the bottom portion of the View button. We'll switch over to Layout View. That'll reveal the same tabs that we had in Design View. So I have Report Layout Design, Arrange, Format, and Page Setup. Now in Layout View, I want to focus on changing the header section of my report first. So I'll switch over to the Format tab. Then I'll click this top portion of the report where it has this kind of light blue color and using these Shape Fill option. I'll change it to this light gray. This is the…

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