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>>Yes, you can setup menu shortcuts to do it.
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>Craig, we are not using menus in this application. I know we can have a menu without showing it but I think there was a neat way of having a hot key adding the "\<" on the fly. And I think it was a suggestion made here.
>Anyway, thanks for your reply.

You may have an invisible button with a caption and a hotkey hidden underneath your graphical button. Just make it small enough.