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Old February 23rd, 2006, 12:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
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Default add yes/no's in access database

Pardon me, but your simple approach won't work on yes/no (boolean) fields.
This field type always has a value - either true or false. Since Count
counts the number of times ANY value exists in a field, the count would the
same as the number of rows in the group.

To count true, you can use a formula
Abs(Sum([YesNoField]))


"NetworkTrade" wrote in message
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hey there - I'll give you a real simply approach....

a. make a new query in Design view and just add the Name Field and the
yes/no field

b. select the greek sum icon from the tool bar (looks like greek E)

this adds a "Total" row to your query builder
'GroupBy' is the default entry - leave this as-is for the Name field

c. in the yes/no field click into right side of 'Groupby' and a drop-down
will appear - - go ahead and change that to 'Count'

then hit the red ! ......and the result will be the name of all and
their
count of Yes

easy to scan down it to see whom is above your minimum criteria......hope
this approach helps....
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NTC


"robo1a" wrote:

I created a database that use's the check box(yes/no) my question is "How
can
I
tabulte the yes and no's. example: show if 5 or more meetings were
attended,
for use in a query
thanks