Just showing that the information inside the brackets refers to fields/tables/etc. I could have written it as

iif(SEEK( Mytable.FKField, 'LookupTable', 'Keyfield'), LookupTable.Description, '')

and it might have been clearer. But sometimes people get confused when I use 'made up' table names.

>Barbara,
>
>What are the <> doing for you in this example?
>
>>IIF( SEEK( < Table.ForeignKeyField >, '< LookUpTable >', '< KeyField >' ), < LookUpTable.Description >, '' )