Ok - I'm very rusty when it comes to creating reports in Access so I'm needing some help.

My problem is that I am trying to create a report from a bunch of data records that I export from Excel each day. The structure of the data is fairly straightforward and I really only need 2 columns worth of data to feed into my report. Here are the columns:

Create Date ContactResult

Now, this data can have 10-20 of the same ContactResult for the same day. So a ContactResult called "Transferred for Immediate Session" can occur 10-20 times on October 8. The data would have 10-20 lines for each occurrence.

On my Report, I'd like to have all of the ContactResults totaled for each day and have each day be it's own separate page. In addition, I'd like to show the counts of each ContactResult in a column on the report and the proportion that the total for each ContactResult represents

Basically, I'm trying to mimic what a pivot table does where it rolls up similar items and groups them together and then counts them. A further step is grouping them by the date that they occur on.

Assuming there is a primary key in your data, this is how I would do it.

Use the Report wizard and add the three fields in this order: CreateDate, ContactResult, Primary Key

Do grouping on CreateDate and Contact Result. Do a count on the Primary Key and summary only.

After the report is generated add footers for the two groups with the counts. Set a Page break after the date footer.

Scott - thanks for your help. Your input got me going in the right direction and I'm almost 100% of the way finished with my report. Here's where I am stuck.

I got the pagefooters to work so that I can spike out my records by each day and the column totals to work which shows the totals for each ContactResult by day. At this point, what I am trying to do is create a Summary Page where it rolls up the totals by ContactResult for the entire month, not by day.

Right now my report setup is :

Page1

Date ContactResult Count
10-8 assisted customer 5
Routed to helpdesk 4

Page2
Date ContactResult Count
10-9 assisted customer 6
Routed to helpdesk 3

I would like the Totals (summary) Page to read:

ContactResult count
Assisted customer 11
Routed to helpdesk 7

Do I have to create a 3rd level of grouping to do that? Or would I have to create a query and build it into the report?

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If the report only encompasses ONE month, then you can just copy the footer controls into the Report Footer. It should sum for the report.

If you are reporting on more than one month, you will need to group on Month.

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Yes, the report encompasses one month only.

I copied the ContactResult control and the Count control into the Report Footer but it's only returning one record... the very first record from Oct 1st and nothing more.

What are the control sources?

The Control Source for ContactResult is the ContactResult field from the table. The Count is an expression I created that counts the ContactResults by category.

I just realized I never responded to this. Can you take a screen shot of the report design and attach?