OK. The Answer. It's a Plan B and MOSTLY works. One of the fields available to me is email, which is strictly an email address. The communication field contains either an email address OR a telephone number. =20 Since I can't use a Like or Not Like comparison operator to get my DESIRED result within a merge field, I'm comparing the two available fields and if they match then no text. If they don't match, I'm including the not matching record. This will get me what I want most of the time, but not always, since the not matching record might also be an email address but USUALLY is not. I have to change the text of my document so it's more ambiguous but don't see an option for that. sigh...heavy sigh Thanks all for trying to help. /g ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************