Amend a report without starting again with a Query?

[km]

I am new to Access and have prepared a number of Ambulance runs with
pick-up details of Charity Day Centre members.

As I have learned more I have added boxes for pick-up times and
various other enhancements to Reports eg additional columns of details
for Wheelchair type, different Fonts etc.

Is there any way I can simply amend my earlier Reports to reflect
these improvements or do I need to start again for each one.

Or maybe at least create a template with these enhancements applied.
Creating a personalised Style is as near as I can get but this doesn't
avoid the need to do the boxes etc to each Report in Design view,
after they are prepared.

The entry of boxes is one of the stumbling block as I seem to be stuck
with going over every report individually and entering that sort of
detail for each one. Plus I haven't fathomed out how to add another
column of data - hence I am going through the whole process each time
I think of an improvement.

Am using Office97.

Hope my question makes sense.

KM

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

Is there any way I can simply amend my earlier Reports to reflect
these improvements or do I need to start again for each one.

You simply have to open up that older repot in design mode, and simply add
the additional text boxes to the report.

If the report is based on a older query, then BEFORE you try and modify the
report..you will have to add the additional fields to the query that the
report is based on (this is so that the "list" of fields you can select from
to place on the report includes the new fields).

So, there is no reason at all to re-build report from scratch..but simply
add the additional fields.