>>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.
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>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.

In VFP's menus, once upon a time, an ampersand in front of a character acted as it does in Windows - makes that character a hotkey. Now I don't know why would that have anything to do with a label caption, but rmoving extra ones helps.