FWIW, I just tried it and got a "Data type mismatch" error. What I think you're doing is issuing the SEEK as a function call with no left portion, I mean usually it is:

lFound = SEEK()

just typing:

SEEK()

gives the error message you describe: "Function name is missing )"

Mark


>>>In the Click() event of a button, if I use Empty() inside of Seek() I get the error: "Function name is missing )".
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>>Is Employee. SSN a logical field? If not you will get a type mismatch error. >The EMPTY() function returns a logical denoting whether the variable is empty >or not.
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>I said that I get the error: "Function name is missing )" when I try to close the method's editor.
>Employee.SSN is a char field (Social Security Number).
>Did you try my example?
>If so, did you get an error?
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>j