Text Totals

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Jim/Chris

In a new control in a report
=Sum(Abs([fieldname]="yourvalue"))

In a totals query
Total:Sum(Abs([fieldname]="yourvalue"))

Jim
-----Original Message-----
I am trying to total up the number of times certain words
are used in a column of my Access table. I can figure out
how to total numbers, but not how to count the number of
times a word appears. I've tried using a report and a
query, but I can't figure out a way to count text.
 
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