>I am taking this example from the VFP help:
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>DEFINE PAD syspad  OF _MSYSMENU PROMPT '\<System'  COLOR SCHEME 3  KEY ALT+S, ''
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>The pad appears in the menu but the ALT+S key does not kick in. Anyone knows why?


It works for me. Do you have an OKL for Alt+S defined? I did add

ON SELECTION PAD syspad OF _MSYSMENU wait window 'hello'

just to make sure the wait window showed up.