Visual C++ Tips » Ampersand in control caption http://weseetips.com Gold mine of Visual C++ tricks! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:09:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= How to add ampersand(&) symbol to dialog control captions? http://weseetips.com/2008/06/15/how-to-add-ampersand-symbol-to-dialog-control-captions/ http://weseetips.com/2008/06/15/how-to-add-ampersand-symbol-to-dialog-control-captions/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:10:43 +0000 Jijo Raj http://weseetips.wordpress.com/?p=173
For dialog controls we can assign keyboard accelerators. If you give the button text as “&Add”, then really it will become “Add” because the ampersand character is used to mark the keyboard accelerator for that control. But what to do if you want the button text to be “Add & Refresh“?


Just use && if you want ampersand as part of caption instead of Keyboard accelerator marker. For instance see the screenshot.


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