Microsoft Access
Creating reports exercise
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This Microsoft Access CREATING REPORTS exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl BASIC QUERYING IN ACCESS course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Reports - diversified financial companies

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-729.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Open the database in the above folder.
3) Create a new query called qryDiversifiedFinancials which shows the 12 companies in the Diversifed Financials industry sector.
Training exercise hint Don't bother typing in the whole of Diversifed Financials in the criteria row - just "Like Divers*" would do.
4) Create a report using the Stepped layout and Corporate style which shows total assets and market value by country, with the companies listed alphabetically within each country:
Exercise screen-shot 1466 Initially your report will look something like this
5) Make changes to your report to make it prettier - here is a suggestion:
Exercise screen-shot 1467 The same report, with formatting
6) Save this report as repDiversifiedFinancial, then close it and the database down.

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