Perform Find with 'OR'

[ron G]

I have a field: STATUS.

It usually contains: "Current", "NPD", "Late", "Suspended", "Expelled", "Deceased" or ""

I want to do a report that includes everyone who is NOT "Deceased"

It doesn't seem that FM Perform Find does NOT allow '<>' or 'NOT=' or anything like it so I used:

PERFORM FIND ["Current"]

Extend Found Set ["NPD"]

Extend Found Set ["Late"]

etc...

down to...

Extend Found Set [""]

The weird thing is that trying to extend to the found set to include blank or empty records does NOTHING??? If this is so, how do I include empty or blank STATUS values??

Thanks

[ron G]

The 'right' solution was to CONSTRAIN not EXTEND the FOUND SET....

Thanks to the other related forum posts for leading me to that solution...

[comment]

I want to do a report that includes everyone who is NOT "Deceased"

How about doing exactly that - by a single request to omit "Deceased"?