>Several things ahead: you may rewrite your hotkey definitions to get into the form class definition, in the KeyPress - that way you're safer from the, ahem, "possible future funkiness", and your hotkeys which are defined to work on a form will work only while that form is active. If it weren't so, you could bring up another form, or a report preview, whatever, while your form is running, and your OKLs would still apply.
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>noted but like I'm asking of Jim, are you saying this method is superior to the menu method?

Neither superior nor inferior - just scoped to the form. So, when the form isn't active, it won't be called. So, this should be the way to go for the things which should work only while that form is active, not outside of it. The things which should be available application-wide should be called from the menu. Your's the app, your's the sieve.

>yes - in DOS, holding the key does upset the OKL routine.

But, does it in VFP? I was expecting someone with ready OKLs to try it for me :).