Multiple IIF in Query for Report

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Dear Professionals:

In my table my fields are:

Salutation
FirstName
Middle Name
Last Name

In my report I have one field in which I want to concatenate the full name.
I only need to list salutation if the saluation is Dr. and in some cases I
have a middle initial or name and in some I do not.

Here is my current IIF statement for the field in my report:
=IIf([Salutation]="Dr.",[Salutation] & " " & [FirstName] & " " &
[LastName],[FirstName] & " " & [LastName])

I have totally excluded MiddleName from the statement because I could not
figure out how to account for each of the situations below and keep the
spacing correct:

Dr. with first, middle, last
Dr. with first, last name
No Dr. with first, last, middle
No Dr. with first, last

Thank you in advance.
 
I'm not sure if that what you are looking for

=IIf([Salutation]="Dr.",[Salutation] & " " & [FirstName] & " " & ([Middle
Name] + " ") & [LastName],[FirstName] & " " & ([LastName] + " ") & [Middle
Name])
 
= IIF(Salutation="Dr.","Dr. ") & [First Name] & (" " + [Middle Name]) & (" " +
[Last Name])

This takes into account the different ways that & or + work when adding together strings.

If a value is null, then the + will add that null to the string and give you
NULL. So " " + Middle Name will end up being blank, while " " & Middle Name
will end up being one space long.
 

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