Inheritance operates for data displayed through report controls, just as it does for page controls, but it's limited to print-applicable properties. Properties, such as decimal formatting, are inherited, but as we saw with our date and time fields, not all formatting is inherited. Remember, if the property is explicitly defined in the table, it cannot be less restrictively defined elsewhere. This is one of the reasons why it's so important to focus on table design as the foundation of the system.