That did it! Thanks!!!!!!

>>The problem is that I do not know what they all may be. There are many of them used in FPD26 for line drawing, etc and special characters and they are all entered as =CHR(whatever#)...
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>Then the form hack should work just fine after backing it up somewhere for good measure, e.g.
>[evaluated expressions in captions are stored like this e.g. caption=" =Chr(195)" is stored Caption = (CHR(195))
>here's an updated version to handle both =CHR(x) and ="Some string"
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#Define CR Chr(13)
>** set those with CHR(x) in label expression to empty caption
>Update theForm.scx ;
>  set Properties=StrTran(properties, ;
>	  "Caption = ("+StrExtract(properties, "Caption = (",CR), ;
>	  [Caption = ""]) ;
>  where baseclass="label" ;
>  and "CHR(" $ Upper(StrExtract(properties, "Caption = (",CR))
>
>** set those with ="Some string" to just "Some string"
>Update theForm.scx ;
>  set Properties=StrTran(properties, ;
>	  "Caption = ("+StrExtract(properties, "Caption = (",")"+CR)+")"+CR, ;
>	  [Caption = ]+StrExtract(properties, "Caption = (",")"+CR)+CR) ;
>  where baseclass="label" ;
>  and "Caption = (" $ properties
>
>USE in theForm
>Modify Form theForm nowait