>Craig,
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>Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not a viable option for the application I'm working on... I shall have to ponder this more...

You can create a menu that has the hotkey option you need, but you never need to call it like a menu. Just define the popup the menu did (cut & paste the code from the .MPR into a .PRG) and execute it. The hotkey will now be available, you just never display the popup.