>George,
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>>such as this is in a report text field
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>And then I'd be inclined to the classical IF/ELSEs into a UDF instead of using a too gnarly nested IIF().

df,

Absolutely! I'm speaking in terms of a simple IIF() statement.IOW,

IIF(A, B, C)

Anything beyond that, even if it is faster, is asking for trouble.

Along the same lines, I'm sure that we can expect to see similar abuse with the ICASE() function.

Whoops, sorry. Such remarks are sure to have the "Correctness Police" after us if you agree.:-)