How do I restrict count of records if = to certain words

[Judy]

My report has all the records, but I need to run some over all counts where
only certain conditions exit. Example, of all the records in the report,
count only those with field xyz that has conditional formatting that is "red"
or that has certain key words. Example - count policy type where policy type
is "whole life".

 

[John Spencer]

Set the controls source to

=ABS(Sum([policy type]= "Whole Life"))

This works because [policy type]= "Whole Life" is going to return True
(-1) or False (0). Summing that will return a number. The ABS function
will strip off the negative sign.

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