[mso] Re: Access Question

The other possible solution no-one's mentioned yet is to put a
calculated control on a form, say, using a DSUM formula to do the maths
for you. But then they're fiddly little things with their unforgiving
syntax and insistence on quotes everywhere!

Ray

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From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Linda F. Johnson
Sent: 26 October 2004 17:42
To: MSO Freelist Group
Subject: [mso] Access Question


Ok...this should be easy but I'll be damned if I can figure it out.

I have a calculated control in a query which multiplies my ListPrice
field by my QuantityOnHand field to give me the total value of
inventory.  It looks like this:

WholesaleValue:[ListPrice]*[QuantityOnHand]

Now I want a TOTAL for that column in my query.  Is this possible?
Access Help says I can add all the values in one field, but no matter
what I do, it just gives me the same values that are in my
WholesaleValue calculation.

I set the Total row to Expression and I added a calculated control that
says
Total:Sum([WholesaleValue]) but what I end up with are two columns in my
query, WholesaleValue and Total, and they have EXACTLY the same numbers
in them.  What I want is a total of all the values in my WholesaleValue
column. How the heck do I do this?

I'm doing this for someone who insists it has to be done in Access....if
this were Excel, it would be a snap, but good ol' Access has to make
everything so difficult LOL

Any help would be appreciated...thanks.

Linda
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