Use the SkipIf field to check to data in the first field.

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"adopt-mom" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a report. Sometimes the first field will not contain
data. If this happens I would like it to go to the next record and pick
up
there. I am using Microsoft Word Teacher/student verstion