Query Subtraction

ASherbuck

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Ok, I always post at the end of the day because by now I've fried my brain thinking and I have simple problems that I can't wrap my mind around.

I need some light shed on this for me,

2 Tables

Table1:
ItemID
NumberSold

Table2:
ItemID
InventoryAmt

I have a Select query, I have a relationship drawn between the ID's. I forget now, Straight line with an arrow head from Table2 to Table1.

All I need is every item in Table 2 to have it's Amt subtracted by NumberSold.

My expression [InventoryAmt] - [NumberSold] works for as long as I have an entry for it in Table1. If there is no record of this item ever being sold it gives a blank value. I would like that value to be the InventoryAmt, since X - 0 = X.

How do I explain to my query that if no record is present in Table1 to Subtract from Table2 just use Table2's value?

This has to be easy and I'm sorry to start a thread over it. It's almost quitting time and I'm banging my head off this, heh.
 
in your query have

netbalance: inventoryamount - nz(numbersold,0)
 

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