I'm sorry, I did not explain my problem very well. : (

There are actually several combo boxes all supplying variables to the DCOUNT
criteria; there are at least two variables, name and rating, and can be more,
such as location, start date, end date, etc.

A two variable example could be to return a count of the number of 5's in
one column for the name Luc that is in another column.

DCOUNT(Reference!$L$1:$AK$10000,Reference!AA$1,Ref erence!$A$10022:$K$10023)
Here L1:AK10000 is the database, AA1 is the column of rating numbers, and
A10022:K10023 is the following criteria:

A B C D E F G H I J
K
Location_Location_Name_T.1_T.2_T.3_T.4_T.5_T.6____ Date____Date
Luc 4 =39814 <=39911

Let me know if I can provided a clearer example or anything else that would
help!

And thanks again! : )

"Teethless mama" wrote:

=COUNTIF(A:A,"Luc")


"Rob B." wrote:

I am using the output from a combobox as a variable in a database formula
(DCOUNT). The variable is a name. My problem occurs when one name is used
that is also part of another name in the database. Example: Luc will return
counts not just for Luc but also Lucinda.

How can I get DCOUNT to return just Luc counts?

Thank you very much!

(I did not find an answer in the help file or forum search but I am no
expert.) : )