Inserting () and $ together in Advanced Actions

Hi,
I'm having trouble with advanced actions. When I type in a literal statement ($40,000), it strips out the dollar sign. How can I get it to accept both the parenthesis and the dollar sign? It works correctly if I remove the parenthesis. I'm using Captivate 6.
Thanks,
-dave
BEFORE
AFTER
WITHOUT PARENTHESIS

Hi,
Thanks. I was able to setup a user variable that worked.

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Thank you for this, I suspected that this was going to be the way I would have to progress.
I have to ask though, at present the company I work for uses a very straight forward off the shelf WYSIWYG elearning content designer.
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