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I am creating a document in Microsoft Word 97, which will have drop down form fields, one of the entries, is AT&T.
It displays in the Drop down item list and Items in drop down list, but does not display when I return to the form. How do I get the& to display.

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by kima

Let me understand you better. Basically what you are trying to do is when you go back to edit the form, you don't see anything on the drop down, is that right? Maybe you have a blank entry, Right Click the drop down on the form and select PROPERTIES, there you can add or delete the contents of the Drop Down List. The First Entry in the drop down list should be display whether you are editing the form or not.

If this is not the problem please be more specific.

by kima

In order for you to insert symbols on a drop down list you have to inserted them by pressing alt-and the appropriate acsi number.

Unfortunadtly it seems like WORD doesn't like (&) the ampersand symbol which is AlT-38, but every other symbol worksso try ? ALT 21.

In other words after you enter AT Press ALT21 and add the last T and it will read AT?T. I know this is not the symbol, but I try ALT 38 and it doesn't work. As far as I know that's the only way you can add symbols on the drop down...

You can get the ANSI, UNICODE & HTML values at this website
http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/ansi.html

Remember for ANSI Codes you press ALT first then the number...

Hope this helps...

by macleod7

In Microsoft alot of the & mean something else...one way that I have gotten around it is to place && in the field. An example is H&R Block shows up as HR Block but H&&R Block shows up correctly.

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