Hi Bill! The keyboard shoutcuts and enabling/disabling menu items in toplevel form were the hardest things to me. I spent so many time to got it to work. One thing to check: put the following code in your menu setup set sysmenu to set sysmenu to automatic Have no idea why, but it work only with this code. Also, how do you call your menu within your form? Personally, I make call in Init event of form: do main.mpr with this, .t. There is no property for menus on toplevel form. Have a happy day Vladimir Shevchenko > Sorry to be troublesome, but I could not get the keyboard shortcuts to > work even naming my menu pad as a system menu pad name. Plus, I may not > have been clear in my problem description. I am instantiating a standard > menu in the form ( not a short cut menu ) containing standard keyboard > short cut keys defined in the menu designer. The form has objects on it and > is not acting as a "desktop". The menu's keyboard shortcuts will not fire. > Is there a particular form property setting required for menu keyboard > shortcuts to fire in a top level form? Any other thoughts?