>>I tried it Vlad, and the value didn't change after the first (initial) increment from 0 to 1. Each succeeding group had the same value.
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>>Barbara
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>Are you sure you reset the variable at group level and not at report level?
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>The initial value should be recalculated at each group change and it should work. I will try it too.
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>Vlad

Vlad, I think we're talking about different things. I wanted a variable that would count the number of Groups, not the number of details in each group. Re-setting the variable at group level gives a group sub-total, but counts each detail.

Barbara