Urgent - Problems with grouping Unique values

I have three tables; tblsalesrep, tblclients, tblgeneral.
tblclients references tblsalesrep to show what salesrep is
assigned to that particular client, tblgeneral is for all
intensive purposes an orders table that refs tblclient.
here is the problem(s); i am attempting to write a report
based on a date parameter from RepairedDate from
tblgeneral that shows me the salesrep, the total number of
unique clients and the sum of the repaircost. the problem
i am having is that if a client has made multiple orders
than the number of clients increases on the report. all i
am attempting to do is show if salesman 1 made 35 orders
from only 12 different clients totaling 3500.00, i want
the report to show 12 clients - not 35 which it is
currently doing.
Thanks in advance

Use Totals in your query, with functions:

Sum on repaircost
Where on the date field(s)
Group By on all others

That should do it.

HTH,
Nikos

"FJP" wrote in message
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I have three tables; tblsalesrep, tblclients, tblgeneral.
tblclients references tblsalesrep to show what salesrep is
assigned to that particular client, tblgeneral is for all
intensive purposes an orders table that refs tblclient.
here is the problem(s); i am attempting to write a report
based on a date parameter from RepairedDate from
tblgeneral that shows me the salesrep, the total number of
unique clients and the sum of the repaircost. the problem
i am having is that if a client has made multiple orders
than the number of clients increases on the report. all i
am attempting to do is show if salesman 1 made 35 orders
from only 12 different clients totaling 3500.00, i want
the report to show 12 clients - not 35 which it is
currently doing.
Thanks in advance