Have you taken the time to look over the sample database (Northwinds) that
comes with Access.
You need to look at that and try to learn how it works. There are reports
and forms that contain subreports and subforms. If you look over this and
learn how it works, it may answer a bunch of the questions you are posting
here.
If you still have issues, you may want to think about hiring a consultant to
help you. Many of your posts lead one to believe that your data structure
is badly flawed. Until you step back and fix the structure of the database,
you will not be able to fix the end results easily.
If I remeber correctly, you have a survey database where you boke it into 17
pieces and used 17 tables. Does that mean that each table contains one of
the questions? Does each table have a key that ties them together? In
other words, if "John" fills out a survey, does "John" have one record in
each of the 17 tables?
You may want to consider using the "At Your Survey" database that one of the
Access MVPs built. It has a lot of cool features and will probably handle
everything you need to do.
Rick B