Excel: Cannot Type Ampersands into Dialog Boxes

Last reviewed: November 3, 1994
Article ID: Q79552

Summary:

A shareware sound driver called FM.DRV exists for the AdLib sound card. Use of this sound driver within Windows may prevent the entry of ampersands (&) into Microsoft Excel dialog boxes.

More Information:

To change the sound driver back to the original Windows SOUND.DRV, the SOUND.DRV= line in the SYSTEM.INI file must be changed to read:

   SOUND.DRV=SOUND.DRV

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Last reviewed: November 3, 1994
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