>This is just to share the experience - the problem is solved, no stars :).
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>There's a first for everything. Here's what I started getting the other day:
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>*My guess is that multiple ampersands on a label captions confuse Windows hotkey system
>* (and whatever API Fox calls for that), as the ampersand is considered the Windows equivalent
>* of \<, i.e. prefix for the hotkey.

VFP controls are painted by VFP so I doubt that Windows API is involved in this case. Most likely it's a bug in VFP code.