[AccessD] Heck of an Access Question

This would work, except that I have to fill a single
text box/memo field with this combined information.

The Form that this has to go into is a "paper
questionnaire" form replacement.  Meaning they have to
read and fill out various pieces of information on it,
just as if they were filling out a paper form.  The
field in question, they will be reading back to a
customer the list of products they have recently
purchased.  Such as, " Hello Mr. So and So.  I see you
have recently purchased boogers and snot from us
recently.  Were you satisafied with the products and
services that we provided you?  If not, please tell me
why not."  Where boogers and snot were the items that
they purchased.  Each of these would have a seperate
record in the table tied to the same customer number
and invoice number.

--- Stephen Hait <shait at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > In the data that I am going to be given, each
> customer
> > has a specific customer number, however, based
> upon
> > how many items that they purchased on their most
> > recent invoice, they might be in the table
> multiple
> > times.  If they purchased one item, they're in one
> > time.  Two items, two times.  Et al.
> > 
> > My problem is this.  I need to "convert" these
> > multiple entries into a single entry concatinating
> all
> > of the non-matching data.  Such as items
> purchased. 
> > Obviously, their customer info should be the same.
> 
> One thought is to use queries to create 2 new
> tables. One could 
> contain customer id and info and include one row for
> each 
> distinct customer. The other could contain the items
> purchased 
> with one row for every item along with the customer
> id stored in 
> the customer table. 
> 
> This might resolve your issue and the result would
> be a more 
> normalized way of storing the data (i.e., you would
> not have the 
> customer info repeated as it sounds like you do
> now.)
> 
> HTH,
> Stephen
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