Re: Message for Marshall Barton
From: Noel (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 02:33:33 -0700
Thanks for this Marsh. Ill have a look at the link youve
suggested and if I dont have any success, Ill have to
give up and take the Count facility off this report.
Thanks again for the help, Noel
>-----Original Message-----
>Noel wrote:
>
>>Hi again Marsh. You remember you were helping me with
an
>>earlier post re a Strange Count Problem in a Report? I
>>posted this on the other thread earlier today -
reposted
>>here also to hopefully catch your eye.
>>
>>Well, your suggestions didnt bear fruit Im afraid but
>>something I just tried may throw some light on things,
>>although it seems just as improbable. For some reason
I
>>decided to set Visible = True in the txtCountofSchools
>>text box which is in the SchoolID Header area and now,
>>when I specify that same odd School name,
>>txtCountofSchools correctly shows 1 and the text box in
>>the report footer, whose Control Source is set to =
>>[txtCountofSchools] shows 2. I changed the name of
>>txtCountofSchools and the Control Source of the footer
>>text box to make sure I hadnt got some hidden text box
>>somewhere and this confirmed that theyre linked OK. I
>>then set up a completely new text box in the SchoolID
>>header, called it txtCount, set control source to =1
and
>>Running sum = Over All and added a second txt box in
the
>>footer set to control source =[txtCount]. Same result.
I
>>then moved one of the footer text boxes into the
SchoolID
>>area and it correctly shows 1. But if I move it back to
>>either the report or page footer, it shows 2. Am I
going
>>mad? - surely if the footer text boxes control source
is
>>the txt box in the Header, it has to show the same
value,
>>no matter where its postioned. Any further ideas??? By
>>the way, Ive proved that the count is accurate in many,
>>if not all, other instances - even when I specify a
>>criteria for the report that allows this particular
>>school to be included (e.g by specifying a particular
>>Type of School or County). I would be interested in any
>>further views or tests you might have. Perhaps I need
an
>>exorcist. Cheers, Noel
>
>
>An exorcist may provide more useful results than I can
come
>up with here ;-\
>
>I have never seen and can not imagine a situation that
>causes what I think you're describing. I'm just plain
out
>of ideas here ;-(
>
>If you want to grasp at a pretty thin straw, try blaming
it
>on some kind of corruption. See Tony's FAQ at:
>
> http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/corruptmdbs.htm
>--
>Marsh
>MVP [MS Access]
>.
>
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