actually i hit a problem! i used this in one app, a simple form with 6 pages on a pageframe and it work prefectly. but i have another app, again a simple form with a 6 page pageframe and it doesn't work properly. when you run the form all of the pages have names like 1 customer, 2 details etc with all of the numbers having \< before them. when i alt + "1" or any other number it doesn't work. when i click on a page it activates ok and then i can alt + "any page number" and it will work, but just once. then i have to click in tab again to allow me to use the alt + "number" once again.
any ideas?
Slán
~M

>You're welcome!
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>>I use that syntax all the time, i never thought that it would work on pageframes! Thanks
>>Slán
>>~M
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>>>>hi all,
>>>>I have a small app that have a form and a tab control on it. on the tab control i have 6 tabe and the customer wants to enter keyboard shortcuts, such as ctrl+1 (or atl+1) will activate tab 1 etc. i'm not sure how to do this, any ideas warmly welcomed on this cold evening in Dublin.
>>>>Slán
>>>>~M
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>>>Name the page "Page <\1" and you can use ALT-1. The trick is the <\ combination, the character after <\ can be used together with ALT as a hotkey.