>I could have sworn that entering in Seek(empty(field)) would have tested to see if the field was empty, then it it was true, the expression would be true. But I guess that's not how it works... hehehe...
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Are you looking to do something like this?:

? iif(EMPTY(Employee.SSN), .T., SEEK(Employee.SSN, 'Employee', 'SSN'))

This will return .T. if Empty or Found. What is your command button attempting to do?