Have you tried a report wizard that takes you through the steps and gives you options to summarize, etc.? To get a format such as the one below, in your report design, set up your sorting and grouping to have a group header on member id, and this information on your header line: Member id Name Date Pledged DPayment Then in detail section, place: PayDate Amount You can adjust the properties to hide duplicates if needed. You can have a group footer for the subtotals and place totals on report footer, I believe. Not sure if this is the direction you're needing, hth, Cathy larryspcremedies@ao l.com To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: mso-bounce@freelist cc: s.org 08/05/2005 11:50 AM Subject: [mso] Report Development in Please respond to Access mso ..... I have a database with three tables: n: (m_id, fn, ln, addr, etc.) pl: (m_id, date, pl, dpay) pa: (m_id, date, amt) The "pl" and "pa" tables are many-to-one to the "n" table, but usually there is only one row in "pl" for any "n". I would like to create a report that looks something like this, but can't, for the life of me, figure out how. [report] Member id Name Date Pledged DPayment PayDate Amount ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ n.m_id n.fn+n.ln pl.date pl.pl pl.dpay pa.date pa.amt pa.date pa.amt pa.date pa.amt pa.date pa.amt n.m_id n.fn+n.ln pl.date pl.pl pl.dpay pa.date pa.amt pa.date pa.amt pa.date pa.amt SubTotals dsum(pl.pl) dsum(pl.dpay) dsum(pa.amt) Total dsum(pl.dpay)+dsum(pa.amt) [/report] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-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 *************************************************************