Report View will allow you to have "Interactivity" in your Report.
(Filtering, Sorting?, Active Hyperlinks, Click on Buttons ...etc)
This is simply not possible in Print Preview.
(Many people have been asking for this functionality for a long time)
It is not designed to look like print Preview
Page numbering is meaningless, and you cant see where the page will break, because Report View displays one long report.
Code does not fire in Report View...
So if you are using any code, it will not work.
Print Preview is designed to show you *exactly* what your report will look like.
as Nelson states, this can be time consuming in large complex reports, especially with Graphics.
You can disable this by changing the Default View Property of the report to: Print Preview.
An disable this view entirely (Report View) ,by setting the Allow Report View Property to : No.
Sadly, I don't know of a way to disable this "Globally" (Except perhaps looping the Reports in Design View...)
JeffCoachman
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by: thenelsonPosted on 2009-10-13 at 09:50:36ID: 25561817
Running a report is a very complicated process for Access to complete. Sometimes the report format and print events for different sections may run up to 7 times depending upon the complexity of the report. If the report has no sub reports, grouping or code in the format and print events, then the report view and point preview views will look the same. With more complicated reports, this is not the case. The difference can aid in debugging a complicated report. With very detailed design, the differences can be predefined providing essentially two reports in one.