Microsoft KB Archive/209678

= ACC2000: Moving Backward in Report Print Preview Window Is Slow =

Article ID: 209678

Article Last Modified on 7/15/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q209678



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

This article applies to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb) and to a Microsoft Access project (.adp).



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 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 one to the current page minus one.

As you preview a report in the Print Preview window, Access formats the report pages. It keeps the page formats in memory until you move to a new page. After 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 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 2 pages need to be reformatted. In the second, 299 pages need to be reformatted.

NOTE: This is especially true if the pages contain graphics and not just text. The speed with which the pages are reformatted also depends on the speed of the system on which the program is operating.

Additional query words: viewing prb

Keywords: kbprint kbprb KB209678

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