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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Ampersand in an element label? Aug 29^th, 2006 at 3:43pm	Print Post
	What's the trick to get an ampersand ("&") to show up in an element label? I'm getting an underline instead.

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Ray the Reaper Global Moderator Members Lantica Support Offline The One & The Only Posts: 2482 Joined: Aug 20^th, 2003	Re: Ampersand in an element label? Reply #1 - Aug 29^th, 2006 at 3:58pm	Print Post
	Double it up. So if you want the Label to show as "Save & Exit", the actual Label needs to be "Save && Exit". -Ray

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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Re: Ampersand in an element label? Reply #2 - Aug 29^th, 2006 at 4:25pm	Print Post
	Cool, thanks. Is that required for any other characters?

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Ray the Reaper Global Moderator Members Lantica Support Offline The One & The Only Posts: 2482 Joined: Aug 20^th, 2003	Re: Ampersand in an element label? Reply #3 - Aug 29^th, 2006 at 4:36pm	Print Post
	Off the top of my head I know it is required for the @ symbol as well. -Ray

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Bob_Hansen Senior Member Members Offline WOW, They have the Internet on computers now! Posts: 1861 Location: Salem, NH Joined: Nov 24^th, 2002	Re: Ampersand in an element label? Reply #4 - Aug 29^th, 2006 at 5:02pm	Print Post
	You can use the "&" on your button labels to make Hot Keys. The Underline actually makes a HotKey to be used with ALT key. Suppose you have a button on your form to show Table View. Make the label &Table View This will result in Table View on your button. Now you can use ALT-T from keyboard to show the Table View vs. using the mouse. Or you could: Make the label Table &View This will result in Table View on your button. Now you can use ALT-V from keyboard to show the Table View vs. using the mouse.

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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Re: Ampersand in an element label? Reply #5 - Aug 30^th, 2006 at 12:53pm	Print Post
	Hey, that's cool too, Bob! What happens if the user has multiple forms open (tabbed across the bottom of the screen) and the hot keys are assigned to different tasks depending on the form? I assume the form in view would have control? TIME TO PLAY!

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BOBSCOTT Senior Member Members Offline That Darn Computer #$X# {curse words} Posts: 1195 Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Ampersand in an element label? Reply #6 - Aug 30^th, 2006 at 3:07pm	Print Post
	Infinity wrote on Aug 30^th, 2006 at 12:53pm: �I assume the form in view would have control? Not just view, �The form that has focus gets the hotkey. It works great as long as the user understands were they are in the form. I find new users get a bit confused at first when a form view subform is displayed.

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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Re: Ampersand in an element label? Reply #7 - Aug 30^th, 2006 at 4:03pm	Print Post
	Thanks Bob. Subforms are a bit of an advanced topic for me, and I haven't set any up yet. Still working on my main forms. I need some more of Erika's training or, maybe even better, to get my hands on some applications that use them so I can dissect them and see what they're all about.

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