### Unlinked vs. linked subreports

#### Unlinked

Unlinked subreports are free-standing; their data is not in any way coordinated with the data of the primary report.

In unlinked subreports, there is no attempt to match up the records in one report with records in the other. An unlinked subreport does not have to use the same data as the primary report; it can use the same data source or a different data source entirely. In addition, the subreport is not limited to reporting on a single table. An unlinked subreport can be based on a single table or on multiple tables. Regardless of the underlying data sources, the reports are treated as unrelated.

#### Linked

Linked subreports are just the opposite; their data is coordinated. The program matches up the records in the subreport with records in the primary report. If you create a primary report with customer information and a subreport with order information and link them, the program creates a subreport for each customer and includes in that subreport all the orders for that customer.

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