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am i right- then if I want item description- I will have to join it to this data after I first run this query?<br />
thank you
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am i right- then if I want item description- I will have to join it to this data after I first run this query?
thank you

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hello,<br />
i want to run a query to sum the total of qty installed and display no duplicate item numbers.<br />
Item Description is being typed in differently sometimes and it is causing duplicates to occur.<br />
Is there a way to ignore the Item description field?<br />
does not matter which variation of item description displays.<br />
thank you<br />
sample attached<br />
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duplicate.mdb

hello,
i want to run a query to sum the total of qty installed and display no duplicate item numbers.
Item Description is being typed in differently sometimes and it is causing duplicates to occur.
Is there a way to ignore the Item description field?
does not matter which variation of item description displays.
thank you
sample attached

find sum of field and no duplicate records in another field

Microsoft Access is a rapid application development (RAD) relational database tool. Access can be used for both desktop and web-based applications, and uses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as its coding language.