Whew! You guys are tough. :) Okay...I understand what it is you're asking from me. I'll attempt to explain further and please be nice if I still don't get it right. :(

I'll describe File 1 first.

File 1 has three fields, customer id, customer name, and sender id.

File 2 has 10 fields. The 2nd field is the sender id and the 5th field is organization type.

My goal is to generate a report printing the entire list of customer names from file 1. For each customer in File 1 I need to know how many organizations in File 2 match the sender id from File 1.

I'll also need a list of organization types from File 2 that do not match up with sender id from File 1 based on sender id.

Does this help? I'd be more than happy to answer any further questions to help explain the goal or concept I'm trying to achieve.

Thanks!

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