Add or remove a section

Form headers and footers appear at the top and bottom of a form in Form view and at the beginning and end of a printed form. Report headers and footers appear at the beginning and end of a printed report. Page headers and footers appear at the top and bottom of each printed page— they don't appear in Form view.

1. Open a form or report in Design view.
2. Do one or more of the following:
   • To add or remove form header and footer, click Form Header/Footer on the View menu.
   • To add or remove report header and footer, click Report Header/Footer on the View menu.
   • To add or remove page header and footer on a form or report, click Page Header/Footer on the View menu.
   • To add or remove group header or footer on a report, do the following:
     1. Click Sorting and Grouping on the toolbar.
     2. In the Sorting and Grouping dialog box, click a row in the Field/Expression column.
     3. To hide the group header section, in the lower portion of the dialog box, set the Group Header property to No.
     4. To hide the group footer section, set the Group Footer property to No.

Notes

• If you remove a header and footer, Microsoft Access deletes the controls in the header and footer.
• You can add a header and footer (except group header and footer) only as a pair. If you don't want both a header and a footer, you can set the Visible property of the section you don't want to No, or remove all controls from the section, and then size the section to zero height or set its Height property to 0. You can also set the DisplayWhen property of a form header and footer to specify when you want the header and footer to be displayed - always, in print only, or on the screen only.

You can add or remove sections at the group level on a data access page that is bound to data. You can add an unbound section to a page that is not bound to any data.

1. Open a data access page in Design view.
2. Do one or both of the following:

   Add or remove a group header, footer, caption, or record navigation section

   1. Click the arrow on the header section bar of the group for which you want to add or remove a section. If the group does not have a header, click the arrow on the group's footer section bar.
   2. Do one or both of the following:
      • To add a section, click the section name.
      • To remove a section, clear the check box to the left of the section name.

   Tip

   You can remove a section and any controls in it by selecting the section and then pressing DELETE.

   Notes

   • You can't add a footer to the lowest group level on a page.

   • You can't add bound controls to the caption and record navigation sections.

   Add or remove an unbound section

   1. Open the data access page in Design view.
   2. Do one of the following:
      • To add an unbound section, click Unbound Section on the Insert menu.
      • To remove the unbound section, click the section bar and press DELETE.