>Hi Greg,
>The one time I heard of this happening was when using a beta version of a
>third-party VB control, and control had a Left property. Setting the
>compiler options wrong when compiling the control meant that the Left
>property interfered with the Left() function of VBA. Using the VBA
qualifier
>was the workaround until a fix was made (fortunately very quickly)

>Regards
>Jonathan West - Word MVP
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>>Anna,

>>I didn't really investigate why, but I had similar problems with some vba
>>functions and used the library qualifier, hence, VBA.Chr instead of plain
>>Chr.

>>FWIW,

>>Greg Longtin


>>> Jonathan

>>> Thanks. Those are the common ones. The problem is long gone but the
error
>>> occurred at every Errorhandler containing a MsgBox with Chr(13) in the
>>text,
>>> there was a problem at the customers office,  NT4, Word97. Replacing it
>>with
>>> vbCr made the difference. Doesn't make sense to me.

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>>> /Anna Bohman
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> Hi,

> I am writing a function in VBA and I'm interested in writing a string
> composed of a couple of words separated by a 'tab' key.
> In pure Visual Basic I wrote the following:

> dim str as String
> str = "aaa" + Chr(9) + "bbb"

> However, in VBA the function 'Chr()' is not recognized.
> Do you know any other way I can use to mark the tab key? (I tried \t, it
> didn't work) Or maybe how can I make my VBA environment familiar with this
> function?

> I will appreciate any hint you can give,
> Thanks in advance,

> Shoshi.