Try to convert memo to the character.

Select * from Exhibit where Lower(PADR(cWorkTitle,100))="te"

>Hi all,
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>Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong with this select statement.
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>Select * from Exhibit where Lower(cWorkTitle)="te"
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>This correctly gets all the exhibits with a cWorkTitle starting with "te" but it also get any records that have a blank cWorkTitle, why should that be?
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>Thanks in anticipation.
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>UPDATED:
>cWorkTitle is a Memo field is that significant?