>>>No, you are not silly :). What I didn't say (just for the simplicity) is that I want to set the value "** No Employee ID **" in the column EMPL_NAME where EMPL_ID is blank. So your suggestion with the PADR() in the INDEX expression works though.
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>>Ah, good, I thought it was the lack of coffee after a long weekend where I was rudely awaken by calls from work where I needed to fix problems created by others.. These were probably the last freaking days where I could sleep before my daughter needs rides for the ice rinks at ungodly hours of the weekends...
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>What is 'sleep'? :)
I do not know any more... lately for me is a period from 1 AM to 5:30 AM that I am in bed thinking about how little sleep I am getting, thus unable to sleep.
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