Thank you again James, that was exactly what was needed! Now it's ok. Where will I find the article you mentioned on Date Functions? Can you send the url? To answer your question about which quarter reports are run, right now this reporting is in the beginning stages. Several months ago I got all the data together and pulled together basic reporting to capture last year thru QTR 1 of this year. Now I'm making these revisions to the database, since I just had to pull QTR 2 data this week and want to streamline the whole process. Next step will be putting something together for the users to input their data directly into the system, as right now I'm importing all their excel spreadsheets into a master table and coding the data, etc. to get it to report right. But that's another story . . . :) one book at a time! Thank you, I would really like to read your article, thanks, Cathy James LaBorde <jlaborde@xxxxxxxxx To: "'mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent by: cc: mso-bounce@freelist s.org Subject: [mso] Re: Access 2002: Convert Number To String (Quarterly) 07/14/2004 12:32 PM :VSMail mx5 Please respond to mso ..... Cathy, The reason you are getting so many records is because it is pulling in each unique DateIssue field for you. In order to get what you are looking for, change your first field to: YearIssue: Datepart("yyyy",[DateIssue]) This will pull only the year part of the date and should allow you to get only one instance of each quarter per year. Don't be afraid to use the date functions and formulas in your header either. When you run the report, do you run it for the previous quarter or do you run it for different quarters? If its the previous quarter, check out my article on Date Functions in the ABC archives. You could actually set it up to automatically pull the dates so your users wouldn't have to enter them. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask. James ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************