You may find it simpler to get these numbers outside the report using a second report cursor, then link your main cursor with the subtotals cursor with one record for each Shipment group for the report.

Barbara

>I created a Sales Commission Report using VFP's Report Designer.
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>It has 5 breaks (bands): salesman, date, order#, shipment#, detail line.
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>I feed the report a single cursor which has loads of data at the detail level and some data (including numeric values) at the group (shipment#, order#) level.
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>Some of the expressions I print in report footers are not sums of detail amounts but rather amounts that belong to break level data. F'r instance, the cursor has a column that is shipment amount and I display that for the first time in the shipment# footer band.
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>It is easy enough to display this value at the Shipment# level, but when I go to SUM it for the next level, the Order# level, it is all screwed up, as it seems to add it up once for every detail line, not once per shipment, even though it is a figure that does not belong to the detail level.
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>If I have been clear, what do I do to correctly calculate and display a SUM of non-detail numbers?
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>David