I've found the easy way around this. I've decided to create 3 separate subreports and then "merge" them in one main report. By doing some basic formating I've got the report to look the way I want it to be and its way faster than using DCount
Maybe I have lots to learn about using Queries appropriately. Well, at least for now I've got one problem out of the way.
Thanks Bob. This is a do-able problem and what I was trying to do was a step-by-step approach because if you work out the how-to, you will really appreicate what queries can do and how powerful they are.