Text and Messages View |

| This view is available only in the full edition of InstallShield Express.

In the Text and Messages view you have complete and centralized control over all of the localizable strings displayed in your setup. You can edit everything from the Next buttons to the feature descriptions.

Each dialog is listed in the Text and Messages explorer. To edit the strings in a dialog, select that dialog and modify the Value property in the property sheet to the right.

| In the full edition of InstallShield Express, you can use the Export String Table and Import String Table wizards to export and import your strings for translation—to build localized versions of your setup.

## Translating String Tables

Once you've completed modifying your strings, you can export them all to a text (.txt) file for translation. You can import each translated string table back into your project to build a localized version of your setup. To export a string table, select Export String Table from the Tools menu. Then, follow the instructions on the Export String Table wizard. To import a string table back into your project, select Import String Table from the Tools menu.

## Special Characters Used in String Tables

When editing your dialog's strings, you may run across characters that seem out of place. Often these characters are recognized by Windows Installer as escape characters that change appearance at run time. For example, if you see an ampersand (&) in one of the strings, it means that the character immediately following the ampersand is an accelerator key. This character will be underlined and provide keyboard access to the control it labels.

A second character that may stand out in the string tables is the square bracket. Words that appear between these brackets, such as [ProductName], are Windows Installer properties. In this example, every occurrence of [ProductName] will be replaced with the actual name of your product as you specified it in the General Information view.