Help! This is driving me crazy. CASE statement report syntax error (missing operator)

Hi
Can anyone help with this SQL statement please. It uses a
CASE statement but I keep getting back a syntax error (missing
operator) error message. The SQL statement works without the CASE
statement, so everything else is fine - its just when I put the
CASE statement back in.
Here's the SQL statement:-
SELECT transactions.ourRef, transactions.transDate, CASE WHEN
transactions.transTypeID = 2 THEN transactionDetails.goodsVatable *
-1 ELSE transactionDetails.goodsVatable END,
transactionDetails.goodsNonVat, transactionDetails.VAT,
transactionDetails.grandTotal, clients.clientCode,
transTypes.transTypeDesc
FROM transactions, transactionDetails, clients, transTypes
WHERE transactions.transID = transactionDetails.transID
AND transactions.clientID = clients.clientID
AND transactions.transTypeID = transTypes.transTypeID
TransID = 2 means that its a credit not instead of an
invoice, therefore I want the goods vatable returned as a negative
number.
Thanks in advance.
Wez

quote:
...the client wishes for me to use an MS Access db
Too bad you didn't say that to begin with. I believe that
with Access you might consider using IIF().
Syntax:
IIf(expr, truepart, falsepart)
SELECT transactions.ourRef,
transactions.transDate,
IIf(transactions.transTypeID = 2,
transactionDetails.goodsVatable * -1,
transactionDetails.goodsVatable),
transactionDetails.goodsNonVat,
transactionDetails.VAT,
transactionDetails.grandTotal,
clients.clientCode,
transTypes.transTypeDesc
FROM transactions, transactionDetails, clients, transTypes
WHERE transactions.transID = transactionDetails.transID
AND transactions.clientID = clients.clientID
AND transactions.transTypeID = transTypes.transTypeID
Phil

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