Are you clicking on the SUM button under calculations? If you are, option 2 below should give a total of the P_S_C fields being cool... If there is a chance that there are nulls in the field, you might want to say something like:

IIF(INLIST(nvl(mastertemp.p_s_c, "~"),"P","S","C"),1,0)

>George, Ken
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>This is the code I've tried so far, to no avail.
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>1.IIF(NOT ISNULL(mastertemp.p_s_c) AND NOT EMPTY(mastertemp.p_s_c), 1, 0)
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>2. IIF(INLIST(mastertemp.p_s_c,"P","S","C"),1,0)
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>3. IIF(mastertemp.p_s_c,"P","S","C"),1,0)
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>4. mpaid + msyn + mcomp
>where:
>mpaid = iif(mastertemp.p_s_c = "P",1,0)
>msyn = iif(mastertemp.p_s_c = "S",1,0)
>mcomp = iif(mastertemp.p_s_c = "C",1,0)
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>I suppose I could code this prior to getting to the report writer but I wanted to try to do it within the report write itself.
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>Maybe it's not possible?
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>Jim