Re: & in label fields in VB

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From: Mike Hart
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 00:31

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 aliamus@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Steve Aliamus) writes:

>    Is there a way to tell a label field to *not* draw an underline when
>    it sees an "&"?  My workaround up to this point is to create text
>    fields that cannot be tabbed to, or to simply change a single "&" to
>    "&&" before assigning the label.caption.  

>    Any ideas would be appreciated.

I think you already found the right idea.  It appears to me that doubling the
ampersand, &&, disables the underline property of a single ampersand in
much the same way that a backslash 'escapes' special characters in other
programming environments.  I have not been able to find it documented but I
would guess that it was designed to work that way.  Anyone know for certain?

Mike Hart

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From: mhart@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Mike Hart)
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1992 00:31:34 GMT
Subject: Re: & in label fields in VB
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