>Hi Harry,
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>I've been following this and have nothing new to offer but one suggestion...
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>I think you'll want to check out the "flow" of the keying real early in your testing. Remember, menus cascade and I do believe that you have to go through all of the "levels" to get at the particular key combination that you want.
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>good luck with this (and I must admit that I didn't really 'get' why it was that JimB's suggestion to use the Form's KeyPress event wouldn't do the job you need).
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>Jim N
>

Jim,

That is true for menu hot keys, Alt to activate and then a series of single keys to navigate. However, short cut keys don't require navigating the menu system at all. Short cut keys directly execute a menu option, for example Ctrl+C to copy or Ctrl+V to paste.