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Hi all,
Is there a way to underline the first character of a button's label ? In this case, an underlined 'N' at the beginning of 'Next' would indicate to the user that a keyboard shortcut is available (Ctrl + N).

Hi Klaus, I am a native of the United Kingdom of GREAT (get that ?, GREAT) Britain. Not to be confused (under any circumstances - torture, political waffle) with the European Union. A free-born Englishman, travelled the Orient, Africa, the Middle East, and now safely back home, struggling with syste...

HI all, I think I finally got it figured with this code if fld "dateready" is 3 then set the itemdelimiter to "/" put word 1 of fld "startday" into sday put word 1 of fld "startyr" into syr put word 1 of fld "startmth" into smth put smth & "/" & sday & "/" & syr into tdate2 put sday & "/" & smth & "...

Just you I'm guessing,
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Hi Klaus, Here is the code.. if fld "dateready" is 3 then set the itemdelimiter to "/" put word 1 of fld "startday" into sday put word 1 of fld "startyr" into syr put word 1 of fld "startmth" into smth put sday & "/" & smth & "/" & syr into tdate put sday & "/" & smth & "/" & syr into tdate2 convert...

Klaus,
I forgot to say, the code you sent me didn't do it.

Hi Klaus,
I don't think I picked up a hint about systemdate in a previous thread..
I'm now trying to find how to change 24/3/25 into a systemdate (?) other than writing some complex script to move the dateitems of it to new positions.

Hi Klaus,
I didn't get your input until after I sent mine !
Two ships in the night..

Thinking about this, it occurred to me that maybe, to convert, the date to be converted should be in the american format. I'll try playing with that.

Hi again, My euphoria in solving the last date problem was shortlived. I discovered by chance that the convert to seconds command was intermittently failing to work. I isolated the problem in a substack, consisting of two fields, field, and field2, and a button. The button code is convert fld "field...

Hmmm, belittlement, dimunutive, confusion. By comparison, coding is quite straightforward !

Hi Klaus, All I know is when I used "the first word of fld "startyr" instead of just "fld "startyr"" (and similar for day and month) the derived date was able to be converted to seconds. As it was pointed out, there must have been some invisible character in the fields that I wasn't aware of that wa...

Thanks all of you for your interest and insights.
Jacque, I used your suggestion and it works ! Thank you so much for that little wheeze.
So now I can move forward.

Hi Klaus,
Sorry, I don't understand

"please post what's in tDate"

Hi Craig, I understand you, and I have done it that way, but in that way, 2025 is hard wired, it doesn't update itself to 2026 when the year changes; the essence of what I'm trying to do is that the menu items will just consist of 2 items, one being the current year, and the other being the current ...