>>>I guess what I'm looking for is a symbol for an empty memo field like the symbol for empty date field is {}.

>>I don't know of one. I have always kept a dummy table with a blank memo field and just add this to my SELECT statement.

>>Yea, after I posted this question I realized what a DUMMY of a question it was >>but it was too late to unpost. I goofed. :(

>Humor... I like it!

Believe it or not, it wasn't meant to be humorus, but I'm glad you liked it. (chuckle, chuckle)