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Your questions are probably more appropriate/faster answered in one of the seven fora dedicated Access - for this, perhaps forum703 or forum705 - mind you, if you want to assign it to the reports recordset, I think you'll have to be working with an ADP (forum958), not and mdb - so druers advice seems good ...
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