>Yes, you can take over F10 with ON KEY LABEL. (DOSish thing to do, but it's still available.)
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>But to answer your other question, F10 activating the menu bar has been a windows standard (a standard in Windows applications) since Win 3.1. Run Excel, Word, Word Perfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and hit F10. Watch what happens.
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>HTH,
>Rich.


Radical that I am, I've never shrunk from violating community standards. (When there is a good reason. :) I just checked Word and the Alt key works there also (has the same function as the F10 key). I will check out Word Perfect and Lotus another time.

I would say that the alt key is more intuitive for this task then the F10 key (since users are used to the idea that alt + letter will activate something on the menu). So I see no reason (other than tradition) to dedicate a useful key like F10 to the same task. (My users who are migrating from DataFlex to FoxPro are used to pressing the F10 key to save.)

Thanks for the response.

Peter