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Comparison Property

Returns or sets an MsoFilterComparison constant that represents how to compare the Column and CompareTo properties. Read/write.

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Example

The following example changes an existing filter to remove from the mail merge all records that do not have a Region field equal to "WA".

Sub SetQueryCriterion()
    Dim appOffice As Office.OfficeDataSourceObject
    Dim intItem As Integer

    Set appOffice = Application.OfficeDataSourceObject
    appOffice.Open bstrConnect:="DRIVER=SQL Server;SERVER=ServerName;" & _
        "UID=user;PWD=;DATABASE=Northwind", bstrTable:="Employees"

    With appOffice.Filters
        For intItem = 1 To .Count
            With .Item(intItem)
                If .Column = "Region" Then
                    .Comparison = msoFilterComparisonNotEqual
                    .CompareTo = "WA"
                    If .Conjunction = "Or" Then .Conjunction = "And"
                End If
            End With
        Next intItem
    End With
End Sub