I feel that you try to do it starting with wrong end :). Let's go slower. I need in some more data from you. How many columns do you expect in the report, i.e. how many employees it could be realistically; do you have a limit? If you have big number of employees per invoice, e.g. 10, then how you going to squeeze them into report form?

>Don't know how many invoices, or how many employees.
>Yes it does look like a x Tab. I've been trying even to get just a flat file of the join, then do my SUMming on that, and using that in the wizard but now I'm getting repeated patterns the CHARGED field.
>
>This is doing my head in and my rep no good in the new job :-(
>
>>This whole thing looks like some cross-tab exercise. How many lines you realistically expect in your report, i.e. how many invoices?
>>
>>>I'm trying to achieve the report below:
>>>
>>>

>>>                      Derek                         Bob                      Angus          ...
>>>Inv. No.  Booked   Charged   Booked   Charged  Booked   Charged 
>>>_____   ______    _______   ______    _______   ______    _______
>>>1        0.75       0.75
>>>2                               6         5.5      12         11
>>>3        20.5       20.5                   
>>>...
>>>

>>>
>>>So I need to sum the hours worked on a job, under each invoice ID, for each employee (JobAct.Hours), versus the hours required for each (JobHeads.Quantity)
>>>
>>>First I'm getting "command contains unrecognised phrase/keyword" and I can't figure what's up.
>>>
>>>Here's my pathetic attempt at the SQL. I've come to realise that I could really do with a course on this. I can't tell how successful it is as it won't work but I'm sure it's no good.
>>>
>>>

>>>Select	JobAct.OurInvID,  JobHeads.JobID, JobHeads.LabourID, ;
>>> 		SUM( jobheads.Quantity) as Booked, SUM( jobact.hours) as Charged,  ;
>>> 		Labour.Text ;
>>>  from jobheads ;
>>>  Where jobheads.JobID = "RTvo" ;
>>>  and not EMPTY( JobAct.OurInvID) ;
>>>  INNER JOIN JobAct ;
>>>  	ON  jobheads.JobID = jobact.JobID ;
>>>  INNER JOIN Labour ;
>>>    ON  Jobheads.LabourID = Labour.ID ;
>>>   group by JobAct.OurInvID, jobheads.JobID, JobHeads.LabourID ,Labour.Text  ;
>>>   order by JobAct.OurInvID, jobheads.JobID, JobHeads.LabourID ; 
>>>   into cursor JobsS
>>>

>>>
>>>A help would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>>Terry