Adding Formatting or Special Characters to a String

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To add formatting or special characters to a string

1. Select the string you want to modify.
   
   
2. From the View menu, choose Properties.
   
   
3. Add any of the standard escape sequences listed below to the text in the Caption box, and press ENTER.

   To get this	Type this
   New line	\n
   Carriage return	\r
   Tab	\t
   Backslash (\)	\\
   ASCII character	\ddd (octal notation)
   Alert (bell)	\a