"&" displays as "_" at form view In access

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I type "Invoices & Orders" in a label on a Swithcboard in design view. When
I go to Form view or even give focus to anything else besides the label, the
ampresand turns to an underline "_". How do I prevent this so the "&"
displays in Form vire?
 
I type "Invoices & Orders" in a label on a Swithcboard in design view. When
I go to Form view or even give focus to anything else besides the label, the
ampresand turns to an underline "_". How do I prevent this so the "&"
displays in Form vire?
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Use &&.

The ampersand character in a Label or Caption indicates that the subsequent
character is a "hotkey" - e.g. a Command Buttion caption containing E&xit
displays with the x underlined, and pressing Alt-X fires the "click" event of
the button. What's happening is that "& " is giving you an underlined blank.

To get a single ampersand, just double the ampersand.
 
John,

Thanks so much. it works great and is so simple.

It feels really humbeling to be able to do some of the deep coding I do then
get hung up on something as simple as this. I guess we all are not as
infallabl as we would like to think.

RoyS1031
 
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