This article is an excerpt from Microsoft Excel and Access Integration: With Microsoft Office 2007 by Michael Alexander and Geoffrey Clark. Visit Wiley.com to learn more about this book.

If you are an Excel user, you are no doubt familiar with creating Excel reports that include sorting, layout, and formatting. In this article, you learn that Microsoft Access 2007 has some very slick functionality for reporting as well. In fact, it has utilities that can take your report building way beyond the limits of Excel by incorporating slicker formatting, external graphics, and data-driven custom letters.