Glenda, Do you have to do this as a Word merge? It would be a piece of cake to import the Access data into Excel and then a simple pivot table would give you exactly what you seem to need. Ray _____________ This email is from Ray Blake, Head of Software Design, GR Business Process Solutions. It is confidential and intended for the addressee only. The contents are private and may be legally privileged. If you receive this email in error we would be grateful if you would advise the sender and delete the email from your system. For more information on the services that we offer please visit us at our website: - www.grbps.com -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenda Wells Sent: 25 July 2003 22:44 To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Word Merge, Access VBA Hi. I'm still trying to find a way to create a list in Word Merge from Access data that lists a header and items with values such as in my example: I've crawled all over Cindy Meister's MVP website and have learned a lot but frustratingly, not the answer I'm looking for. Anyway, she mentioned this and I was wondering if one-ah-y'all geniuses could 'splain whut she's talkin about and mebby how-to. "Basically, you create a function in Access VBA and use it as a query expression in your data source. The function takes the ID and puts together the "many" data, followed by the total, in a tab-delimited string." Looking for a clue in sunny central Florida. /g Example Date: Mike Todd Socks 5 Mike Todd Shoes 2 Sally Hansen Socks 8 Sally Hansen Skirts 2 Sally Hansen Dresses 4 Sally Hansen Shoes 27 Example Desired Result: Mike Todd Socks 5 pair Shoes 2 pair Total 7 Items -----New Page----- Sally Hansen Socks 8 pair Skirts 2 each Dresses 4 each Shoes 27 pair Total 42 Items ************************************************************* 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 ************************************************************* ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************