>>>Seems like $ should be the default.
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>>Text field defaults to =.
>>Memo field defaults to $.
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>>What you think should be the default is based on personal preference. On that list you may want to have it $. On another list, you'll probably want it =. We have to apply a standard otherwise it wouln't make sense.
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>Michel,
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>Standards are good.
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>However, in this case you have a text field, Summary, that hold more than just a word or two. If the summary is "Great utility for extracting the city from an address field" I'm not going to get what I want with the "=" unless I'm simply looking for all the great utilities in the download section. I'm much (much) more likely to want to search for "address" or "extract" instead.
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>No problem really - I'll just change it as needed - but I believe that it's less a matter of personal preference than it is good UI.
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>Renoir

Renoir,

Just try to find "Some useful date functions" FAQ without changing default operator (well, I haven't paid attention to this, my mistake). Yesterday I spent ~10 min. trying to find it in the FAQ section.