Report.Section Property

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You can use the Section property to identify a section of a report and provide access to the properties of that section. Read-only Section object.

Syntax

expression.Section(Index)

expression   A variable that represents a Report object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
Index Required Variant The section number or name.

Remarks

The Section property corresponds to a particular section. You can use the following constants listed below. It is recommended that you use the constants to make your code easier to read.

Setting Constant Description
0 acDetail Report detail section
1 acHeader Report header section
2 acFooter Report footer section
3 acPageHeader Report page header section
4 acPageFooter Report page footer section
5 acGroupLevel1Header Group-level 1 header section
6 acGroupLevel1Footer Group-level 1 footer section
7 acGroupLevel2Header Group-level 2 header section
8 acGroupLevel2Footer Group-level 2 footer section
Bb225457.vs_note(en-us,office.12).gif  Note
If a report has additional group-level sections, the header/footer pairs are numbered consecutively beginning with 9.

The Section property is an array of all existing sections in the form or report specified by the section number. For example, Section(0) refers to a form's detail section and Section(3) refers to a form's page header section.

You can also refer to a section by name. The following statements refer to the Detail0 section for the Customers form and are equivalent.

Visual Basic for Applications
  Forms!Customers.Section(acDetail).Visible
Visual Basic for Applications
  Forms!Customers.Section(0).Visible
Visual Basic for Applications
  Forms!Customers.Detail0.Visible

You must combine the Section property with other properties that apply to form or report sections.