SECTION 4
Lesson 4.3: Common Report Tasks

   

 

 

Before you print a report, you might want to adjust how the printed page will actually fit onto a piece of paper and ensure that all of the information is displayed how you want it. Click File à Page Setup to open the Page Setup dialogue box. Here, you have three tabs with different options:

 

Margins Tab

Here you can adjust how wide you would like the page margins to be. Enter a size, or for maximum printing area usage, enter 0 for each margin. Your computer will automatically insert the smallest margins your printer is capable of printing.

 

Page Tab

The Page Tab allows you to adjust the page orientation (portrait or landscape) as well as the size of paper you can print on with your current printer.

 

Columns Tab

The Columns tab is used if you want to print two or more pages of a report on one piece of paper. The number of columns, row spacing, and column spacing fields allow you to specify the dimensions between the multiple pages on your report.

 

The column size fields specify how large you would like each page of the report to be on the printed page. You can also check the Same as Detail checkbox to make the printed size the same as the current dimensions of the Detail section.

 

Lastly, you can choose how the layout of the report pages will be ordered by choosing one of the radio buttons. (The Column Layout control group is only active when you have two or more columns.)