>Gee, that got messed up, and there's no obvious way to edit. sigh...
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>In the menu designer, the Prompt for the menu selection is defined with the "\ < ", indicating that there should be an underline. The underlines don't show up until AFTER I first hit the ALT key. I never noticed this behavior with VFP6.
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>Solutions, known bug, dense self?

This is a W2K and XP situation only. You need to (for XP) right click your windows desktop, and choose properties. Then choose the Appearance tab and press the Effects... button. The last check box controls if you see the underline or not without pressing Alt. "Hide underline letters for keyboard navigation until I press the Alt key".