I apologize if these are extremely easy questions, I am very new to Access but recognize how useful it is and am willing to learn.

I'm using the program, not displaying information on a webpage, if that makes any difference.

1. ) I have been using the contact database for access 2007 and have created a report, however, it is showing more information than I would like: IE I have many different Companies but would only like to show one company's contact information in a certain way, then display another company's information on the same page slightly differently (or with different data types, cell numbers, or extensions etc..).


2. ) I have another contact database used personally in which I would like to display people's birthday's by month. I am currently able to display their birthday's by month, however, it also separates them into the years which I would like to be ignored.


Thanks to everyone who is willing to help me!

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Different layout = different report. You can change a little the look and feel of the report using "Conditional formatting" found in the menu while in design view of your report. But its use is limitted, if you want a total different layout, you need a different report.

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You should group by Month(DateOfBirth), how are you grouping the report now?

Thank you for replying but I'm still quite confused.

1.) Is it possible to have conditional formatting to say if = X then display future categories y & z, otherwise show a & b? I dont need to completely change the layout just which information is shown to reduce white space.

2. ) I have tried entering that into the wizard when I create a report and in the group and sort view but the first gave me an error and the second only lets me choose what is in a drop down menu. Where to I enter that?

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You can do 'something' like that in a query... using an IIF try it and see how far you get.

2)
A query... make a query and add that to the fields.