Microsoft KB Archive/95453

= ACC: Moving Backward in Report Print Preview Window Is Slow =

Article ID: 95453

Article Last Modified on 1/18/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 1.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 1.1 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q95453



Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.



SYMPTOMS
In the Print Preview window in reports, you can move forward and backward, page by page, to view your report before printing it. When previewing a large report, you may notice that it takes longer to move backward than it takes to move forward. The further along you are in the report preview, the longer it takes to move backward.



CAUSE
Microsoft Access must reformat the report pages behind it when moving backward. In other words, it reformats all the pages from page 1 to the current page minus 1.

As you preview a report in the Print Preview window, Microsoft Access formats the report pages. It keeps the page formats in memory until you move to a new page. Once you move past a page, all the formats that were constructed to show that page are lost. Therefore, previous pages must be reformatted each time that you move backward.

The more pages there are between page 1 and your current page location, the more time it takes Microsoft Access to reformat them. For example, it takes less time to go from page 3 to page 2 than it takes to go from page 300 to page 299. In the first example, only two pages need to be reformatted. In the second, 299 pages need to be reformatted.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.

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Keywords: kbprb kbprint KB95453

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