>Hi all,
> I finally figured out how to do a left outer join but in the fields with no match I have .NULL. showing in my report column. There must be a simple way to remove it but I haven't worked with nulls before.
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>Many thanks in advance to all the helpfull people at this site.

John, you can put
NOT ISNULL(myfield)
into Print When condition for the report field.