How to use not like or exclude data?

[#1]

I'm more  familiar with Access and some SQL, but I need to exclude data in a field and having trouble finding the proper syntax.

The data in this field has several sales people, and I want to exclude those that have inactive anywhere in their name.

#1 I'm not sure how to make the not like statement

#2 What represents a wildcard.

[giakoum]

where slspsn_no not like '%inactive%'

[#3]

perfect, thanks

[giakoum]

please Jeremy close the discussion