>>>I have forgotten what has to be done to get a top-level menu's hot key assignments to work in a top-level form.
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>>You mean the shortcut key "\<" preceding the prompt? Should work automatically...
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>No, I mean the hot key combination ( Alt-x, Alt-c, etc. ) you assign in the options dialog. These aren't firing automatically ... or am I missing something?

By golly, you're correct, they don't work well at all. If I put F10, it goes to the File menu and doesn't execute the command. If I put Alt+F10, it asks me what macro I want to play :) Maybe it's going to the _screen menu - you could try shutting that off and see what happens...

I've only used shortcuts thus far. Looks like you might need to work around this with ON KEY LABELor something, or stick with shortcuts...did you check the MS KB?