I was just gonna say... but thanks for the thought Ray. I have a temporary work around but I fully intend to get to the bottom of this problem. I'm pretty sure though that like and not like in whatever form cannot be used in merge fields. I suspect wild cards may also be an issue. hmmmph! /g -----Original Message----- From: Ray Blake [mailto:ray@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 1:34 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: WEIRD word merge statement (renamed) :VSMail mx3 Sorry, James. Word fields, unlike Access, don't recognise LIKE as an operator. Ray=20 ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************