Making reports look good

[puppet_sock]

Is there a good reference on making reports look good?
Web page, book, whatever. And a reasonable cost is acceptable.

As an example: I have a table that is the "one" in several
one-to-many relationships. I want to show each record from
this "one" with the corresponding data from each of the manys.
So, customer, orders paid, orders unpaid, orders in progress,
and so on.

When there are entries on the many side, I want to show them.
When there are none, I don't want to show anything, and don't
want a gap. I've got as far as using a sub-report, but I
think I must be re-inventing a lot of stuff. And probably
doing it wrong, backwards, the hard way, etc.
Socks

 

[Van T. Dinh]

It sounds like you on the right-track already.

Most Access books have a chapter or 2 on Report Design.
My ADH (2000) by Getz / Litwin / Gilbert has 2 chapters
and the second chapter (topics in customising reports) is
nearly 100 pages.

HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)

 

[puppet_sock]

It sounds like you on the right-track already.

Most Access books have a chapter or 2 on Report Design.
My ADH (2000) by Getz / Litwin / Gilbert has 2 chapters
and the second chapter (topics in customising reports) is
nearly 100 pages.

Hmmm. My personal copy of this book is lent to the support staff
in the office. (She's quite the does-everything person. Does our
payroll, gets the office coffee, and develops Access apps.)
Yes indeed there *is* quite a bit in this book. Thanks!
Socks