Getting a report to show a looked up value

[canusa]

I had a report in access 97 that worked fine. When converted to access 2000
it does not report the same. The report is based on a query. In the query,
one of the columns refers to a table and the field in that table is a lookup
value. The lookup field looks for a customer's number and then goes to the
next column to report the customer name. When the query shows the data, it
does not show the customer number - but it does show the customer name - and
that is just what I want. However, when the report comes out, it does not
show the customer name - it shows the customer number. Any help would be
appreciated.

 

[Allen Browne]

Open the query for your report in design view.

Add the Customer table to the query. You should see a line joining the
Customer table to your other table, based on the Customer's Number.

Now you can drag the customer name field into the output grid, and then
display it on the report.

If you have some records in your other table where the customer number is
null (blank), you will need to use an outer join or you won't get all your
records. More info:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~allenbrowne/casu-02.html

The lookup field is notorious for confusing people, so many of us hate it:
http://www.mvps.org/access/lookupfields.htm