Thanks Sergey,
You are the greatest.

Jim

>>Hello Group,
>>
>>I have the following line in the "Number of students in Section Number" + vroster.sectionn in the expression builder in the report designer of the field I created. When I go to run the report I get
>>Operator/Operand type mismatched .
>>
>>This is a field from a remote view to SQL Server.
>>
>What's vroster.sectionn data type? If it's numeric than you've to convert it to the character.

"Number of students in Section  Number" + Transform(roster.sectionn)