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Condition Formatting

How do you include conditional formatting in a report?

Edited on Tue 22 Apr 2008, 21:56

RE: Condition Formatting

Hi Stephen, welcome to the forum, Thanks for the post;
To change a field in a report based on its value, you can apply conditional formatting.
To do this, open your Access report and highlight the field that you want to change the behavior of.
In this example, lets consider using a field called Category ID field.
Under the Format menu, select Conditional Formatting.
When the Conditional Formatting window appears, enter the first condition. In our example, lets select when the field value is less than 3.
Next, you need to select what formatting to apply when the condition is met. Let


 

Access tip:

Random sampling

Data is th key to a good database, therefore checking is essential.

A good way of checking data is by random sampling. You can do this in a query, by typing the follow:
1) In the Field box create a RandonID field eg. Randon Id: Rnd(fieldname])

2) sort the field
3)Right click and chage the properties for To value to be the number of randon records you want to see.

4) Change the set to Show row for Randon ID to be False, add all the other fields you want to see and the run the query.

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