Crystal Reports - Pulling back field does not have text in field - crystal-reports

I have several tables linked together in Crystal and can pull back the correct information needed so far.
I am now trying to filter a field and pull back records on how we contact our clients with a contact type of "By telephone", which is easily done by
{CONT.Type} = "By telephone"
now I want to pull all those records back who have not had a contact "By telepone". I have tried so far
<> does not equal
If "By telephone" in {CONT.Type} then 1
else 0 (and various options within this range)
NOT LooksLike({CONT.Type},"By telephone")
I have a total set up of 254 clients and 189 contacted by telephone, but need a report to be able to show me those who have been contact differently.
At the moment, all the formulas I have tried have pulled back either the whole lot or just the "By telephone".
I would like to just see the 65 records

Your record-selection formula should be:
(Isnull({CONT.Type}) OR {CONT.Type}<>"By telephone")

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Crystal Reports XI - Group not returned when adding field which might be null

I'm a very new user of Crystal Reports with no training but with a very light background in programming.
I have been working on a report which should show me some information regarding the order status of parts within my company. I have modified an existing report which had a lot of the information I was looking for and have added several fields containing more information I want to look up (information like stock, delivery date, suppliers and partnumbers). I have one last field I want to add to the report, which shows me the name of the supplier where the part is ordered.
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I am still rather new to Crystal Reports and have what feels like a pretty basic question. I work at a school, and part of my duties are to help with donation reporting. My boss wants a report that gives her biographical(irrelevant to this) information about donors that gave 500 or more to our Booster fund(relevant).
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I assume you are grouped on donor?
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I have my sql database Views available to my report, but sometimes they return multiple values, for example I have one that shows me the Total Credits for a range of years.
When I click "Browse Data.." it lets me see what bits of data are available
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Credits
-------
31
45
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