In fp5 I had several text calculations that incorporated tab characters
and displayed nicely, but fp7 seems to be less forgiving. I have no
problem pasting a tab into a calculation from a word processing
program, but when displayed in browse mode, the tab sometimes appears
correct, sometimes as 444 (a string of three fours) and sometimes as
000 (a string of three zeros).

What's more, I can get all three results on the same layout using the
same field duplicated three times, so that even though the formatting
and everything else is exactly the same, the display result is [tab] in
one field, 444 in another and 000 in the third.

I've searched this group all the way back to 2000 and tried everything
that's been written about inserting tab characters into calculations,
so let me eliminate a few solutions:

1. Tab characters pasted into calculations from word processors do in
fact appear to be tab characters, so there's no issue with actually
creating the tab.

2. I've tried referencing in the calculation a global text field that
contains a tab character created by Option-tab and get the same result
as with the pasted tab: it sometimes returns a tab, 444 or 000.

3. Using "/t" in the calculation just returns /t as a result.

4. The issue exists in three separate files, none of which are
related, two of which have been made from scratch in FP7 and one that
was converted from FP6, none of which have ever crashed -- so it's not
a question of file corruption.

I find this problem vexing. Is anyone else experiencing it? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
-S.