in running my luminaria reports, i keep seeing the same thing which i am assuming just didnt translate well from html to plain text. can anyone tell me what this is supposed to read? "&amp" again it is in the luminaria tribute text. thanks.


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Lisa



May 1, 2008 - 7:45pm
thanks rick. knew it had to

thanks rick. knew it had to be something simple just staring me in the face, long day though my brain is in a time out. someday i'll get used to the translating. again thanks


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May 1, 2008 - 8:28pm
Welcome to HTML tags

Lisa, you've figured it out. "&amp" is the HTML representation of the ampersand ("&"). Since & is a reserved chartacter in programming, HTML editors see it and capture it as a tag beginning with, ironically, &. If a team registeres as Acme Mfg "Relayers", you may see them on some reports as Acme Mfg &quot Relayers &quot.

If you download a list to Excel, simply do a universal replace of "&amp" with "&". Also, a lesson learned in Coaching emails. If your HTML version of an email has words such as We're Figthting Back, or Sign up & Send, you'll need to carefully edit the plain text version to take out the HTML representations.

Way more of an explanation than you bargained for, huh?

Have a great Relay in NJ.

/Rick



May 1, 2008 - 8:05pm