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Also I should add that the farther you let users stray into generating custom reports themselves, the more they need to understand the data and how it's stored, which is why there are few (if any) applications that go to the point of letting a user design something from scratch and totally custom on their own.<br />
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Jim.
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Also I should add that the farther you let users stray into generating custom reports themselves, the more they need to understand the data and how it's stored, which is why there are few (if any) applications that go to the point of letting a user design something from scratch and totally custom on their own.

Jim.

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I have an application containing many standard Reports for Invoices or Dispatch Notes, etc. and I'm finding the more people using it the more requests I get to alter the various reports - in some cases the requests can be fairly substantial and will affect other users.<br />
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I'm looking for a way to change or custom a report on the fly without inordinate amounts of VBA code. As if there were a method the users could alter the report in Word and the Access Report shows through the word file for instance. It would have to be a method where the changes are not destroyed by a new version of the main software being released so it cannot be something that is contained in the main ACCDE file.<br />
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Thank you in advance.<br />
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Jed
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I have an application containing many standard Reports for Invoices or Dispatch Notes, etc. and I'm finding the more people using it the more requests I get to alter the various reports - in some cases the requests can be fairly substantial and will affect other users.

I'm looking for a way to change or custom a report on the fly without inordinate amounts of VBA code. As if there were a method the users could alter the report in Word and the Access Report shows through the word file for instance. It would have to be a method where the changes are not destroyed by a new version of the main software being released so it cannot be something that is contained in the main ACCDE file.

Thank you in advance.

Jed

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