Ampersand (&)

While working with the translator, you will often notice the seemingly incongrous appearance of the Ampersand or "&" character. Don't worry, here's what it's all about. Command buttons captions and menu selections often have hotkeys so that they can be accessed from the keyboard rather than the mouse. The Ampersand causes Windows to apply an underscore to any character that it precedes. The German word for Cancel is Abbrechen. Note that the "A" in the left button below is underscored. This happens because TrackPro can store "Abbrechen" as "&Abbrechen". Pressing ALT-A will cause the Cancel Action to take place. If you wanted the cancel action to take place by pressing ALT-C you would change "Abbrechen" to "Abbre&chen". 

For the purposes of translation, TrackPro strips the Ampersand from the English term before translating it. After translation, TrackPro will always prepend the ampersand to the translated word. While this is often adequate, one problem can occur.