Access report design

[DanaB]

In Access 2007 - I'm using report wizard to create a basic report, then I
want to move things around. I'm running into some frustrations changin the
locations of labels. There seems to be a tight link between labels and the
fields their associated with. In earlier versions of access, you could easily
move things around, with labels independent of the fields. Can this still be
done in Access 2007? How?

 

[Maurice]

Dana,

This is by default, all controls are grouped.

For ungrouping:

- go to designview in the report
- select one of the controls
- in the upperleft corner of the leftmost control you'll see a little square
with a + sign in it
- click on that box once
- now click on the ribbon tab "Arrange"
- click on the button "remove" in the "control layout" group
- Your controls will be seperated from now and can be moved freely.

hth

 

[Mike Painter]

Dana,

This is by default, all controls are grouped.

For ungrouping:

- go to designview in the report
- select one of the controls
- in the upperleft corner of the leftmost control you'll see a little
square with a + sign in it
- click on that box once
- now click on the ribbon tab "Arrange"
- click on the button "remove" in the "control layout" group
- Your controls will be seperated from now and can be moved freely.

hth

Note that when you do this in forms and reports some of the labels and
fields might "disappear" when you click "remove" (which is why I gave up on
it the first time.) In reality they have moved and are now hiding behind
other controls.