Paul,

lets see if I understand.

#1 you have a report
#2 you like to count the records where EMPTY(A)

"A" is a bad field name (A is workarea #1), lets use Field1

-you need a summary band on the report (assuming you will output the number and you now how to do)
-you need a variable
-Menu Report / Variables ...
-Add - enter a name (lets say "lnCount")
Initial = 0
Calculation type "None"
Reset at "Report"
Expression IIF(EMPTY(Field1),lnCount,lnCount+1)
Set release at report end
-in summary band add field lnCount

Assuming you will not display, its easier to use SQL SELECT or CALCULATE

Agnes
>hi all,
>
>again to mess up with you people, i have a simple question, i have a record that im sending to the report, say i have 5 records with fields a,b,c
>now on the report form i want to count the number of records where field a is not empty and omit those who are, however, count in the form seems to act different, correct me if im wrong, does it count the total no. of records sent into the report form? if so, is there a way to add an expression or a workaround just to count for fields not empty?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>Paul