# Make the character "&" appear in Action titles
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 18, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733 "2023-01-18T19:19:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@esumsea](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/esumsea)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733/1 "2023-01-18T19:19:11Z")
I cannot get "&" to show up in my action name or title. For example, if I want to name an action:
Album Artist 2 Artist Sort; B, A C & E F to A B C & E F (Any trailing words) & ''B C, A'' to ''A B C'' or ''C, A B'' to ''A B C''
How do I get the & to show up in the title? When check out the action list, the character "&" does not display. I assume this would happen with # as well.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733/2 "2023-01-18T19:23:43Z")
> [@esumsea](#):
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> the character "&" does not display. I assume this would happen with # as well.
Indeed, see the documentation:
> **[Actions – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/#organizing-action-groups)**
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> Documentation on Quick Actions and Action Groups that covers replace text, case conversion, tag to tag conversion, duplicate field handling, batch cover import/export, and more. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@esumsea](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/esumsea)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733/3 "2023-01-18T19:39:43Z")
Thanks, I read that. I was just wondering if there was a character you could use to escape the special function both & and # have, like placing a "/" in front of a special character in Reg Ex. But I guess this is not an option?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733/4 "2023-01-18T19:40:27Z")
I don't know of any.
You have to try it.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733/5 "2023-01-18T19:44:58Z")
> [@esumsea](#):
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> you could use to escape the special function
AFAIK there is no such escape character.
But you could use `'&'` for example.
Or use the word `and` instead of &.
Or use another character like one of the many Unicode replacements like `＆`
> **[Ampersand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand)**
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> The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters et—Latin for "and".
> The term ampersand is a corruption of and (&) per se and, which literally means "(the character) & by itself (is the word) and". The symbol & is derived from the ligature of ET or et, which is the Latin word for "and". Traditionally in English, when spelling aloud, any letter that could also be used as a word in itself ("A", "I", and "...
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### Author:  [@esumsea](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/esumsea)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733/6 "2023-01-18T19:48:59Z")
I have and the forward slash just disappears from the name when I save the title. Maybe I will put in a feature request as anything that shortens a Action name is helpful. I would like to use & instead of and.
Thanks LyricsLover for your input. I guess you are confirming there is no escape character. If you or Ohrenkino do not know of a escape character, I doubt it exists.
I could use + or one of your suggestions. I just wanted to confirm that this is what I had to do.
Its funny the & shows up when you open the actions window by clicking on "Actions," but not in the pull down.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733/7 "2023-01-18T19:59:07Z")
You could use two && to make it appear in the menu (this doesn't work with #, though).
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### Author:  [@esumsea](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/esumsea)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733/8 "2023-01-18T20:39:29Z")
Ah, thank you Florian! I thought I remembered there was a way to do it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-the-character-appear-in-action-titles/59733/9 "2023-02-17T20:39:53Z")
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