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MICROSOFT ACCESS TRAINING: BUILDING ACCESS LABEL REPORTS

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Continuing with the  Microsoft Access training  series,  building Access label reports  is pretty straight forward (especially with the built-in wizard tool). As a snapshot and quick peek into my  Access database eBook , here’s some more information to help establish your options. This type of report can be used for printing label address information to fit a pre-defined or custom defined label sheet (normally an adhesive or plain paper sheet). It can be based on a Table, Query or another external data source altogether (i.e. Excel or Outlook). It can also be used for creating badges, product labels, category name cards and other simple types of data layout reports. Some users will use Microsoft Word’s Mail Merge feature instead of the basic Access Label report where data from an Access database can support other Office applications. If you are going to take advantage of the ‘one-stop’ solution, then keeping it all within the Access database environment makes sense and ther