Calculating and Storing New Values from Existing ones

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I am pretty new to access, I will get right to it.

I am scoring rating scales. I want to be able to enter just the responses from a person, say on 80 questions (preferably into a form), where all the answers are 0 to 3 and have Access add the questions into the right groups to calculate all the sub-scores of the rating scale.
For example, Scale A may consist of Questions 1, 6, 15, 29, 35, and 70
I need access to add those up and save them so I can use them in a report.
I also need access to add the frequency of certain questions that were responded to with the answer 3.
I have gotten Access to calculate the scores in a form by adding extra variables to the form, erasing the variable name out of the white box and putting in the syntax =[Q1]+[Q6]+[Q15], etc. in place of a variable name but it just sits there on the form and doesn't store it anywhere.
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You don't want to store the calculated results, because with relational databases, there is no need to. Run queries on the raw survey data in you tables to obtain the scores needed. These queries can be the source of any report or form you want to present, or the query can be sent to Excel. Do a search on this site on "storing calculated values". This comes up a lot.
 

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