Hi tamar
It's a popup menu item - I wanted to start one of the bar items with a symbol.
yes it is old approach and I have upgraded many of the popups and converted to many of the different ones offered on this site - most commonly 'form'.
but still find the old popup easiest to create and integrate.

k

>>Each of these work independently
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>>? 'Part one'  font 'arial',16 
>>??'  Part two' font 'arial',16 style 'I'
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>>- however is there any way I can change font on a ONE command line
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>>? 'Part one'  font 'arial',16 + '  Part two' style 'I' 
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>>With this I get an operand type mismatch.
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>What are you doing that requires such an old way of generating output?
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>Tamar