I have a variable, emailBody, which is set to a string stored in a database emailBody = DLookup("emailBody", "listAdditions", "Id = " & itemType) The string icludes an IIf function (which includes a dlookup function). ?emailBody The new commodity is" & Iif(dlookup("IsVague", "CommodityType", "Description= " & newItem)="1", "vague.", "not vague.") How do I properly format the string so that the function will be evaluated and the result stored in the string?