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20 Jul 2006 6:48 PM

Tom_Slycke

OK, I'm still in class and we are now adding menu bars. one thing that I
noticed is that when I define a hotkey (&Exit), the underline on the Exit
kind of toggles when I hit the ALT key.

I looked at the Office suite products, like Excel and Word and the underline
is present all the time. Then I looked in IE and the underline on the
menubar toggles here with the ALT key also.

How do you make the Underline present all the time?

Thanks in advance!!!

Tom

20 Jul 2006 8:01 PM

MyndPhlyp

"Tom_Slycke" <tom_sly***@cox.net> wrote in message
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> OK, I'm still in class and we are now adding menu bars. one thing that I
> noticed is that when I define a hotkey (&Exit), the underline on the Exit
> kind of toggles when I hit the ALT key.
>
> I looked at the Office suite products, like Excel and Word and the
underline
> is present all the time. Then I looked in IE and the underline on the
> menubar toggles here with the ALT key also.
>
> How do you make the Underline present all the time?

That's a Windows setting. Control Panel => Display. Go to the Effects tab,
uncheck "Hide keyboard navigation indicators until I use the Alt key."

(That's from a Win2K system. WinXP might be different.)

Office 2K was developed using older tools just as the feature was being
introduced. As a result it doesn't respect the setting and shows the
underline all the time.

20 Jul 2006 8:27 PM

Tom_Slycke

Thanks!!!!

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"MyndPhlyp" <nob***@homeright.now> wrote in message
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>
> "Tom_Slycke" <tom_sly***@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:%23uJcf0CrGHA.4408@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > OK, I'm still in class and we are now adding menu bars. one thing that I
> > noticed is that when I define a hotkey (&Exit), the underline on the
Exit
> > kind of toggles when I hit the ALT key.
> >
> > I looked at the Office suite products, like Excel and Word and the
> underline
> > is present all the time. Then I looked in IE and the underline on the
> > menubar toggles here with the ALT key also.
> >
> > How do you make the Underline present all the time?
>
> That's a Windows setting. Control Panel => Display. Go to the Effects tab,
> uncheck "Hide keyboard navigation indicators until I use the Alt key."
>
> (That's from a Win2K system. WinXP might be different.)
>
> Office 2K was developed using older tools just as the feature was being
> introduced. As a result it doesn't respect the setting and shows the
> underline all the time.
>
>

20 Jul 2006 11:09 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Tom_Slycke" <tom_sly***@cox.net> schrieb:
> OK, I'm still in class and we are now adding menu bars. one thing that I
> noticed is that when I define a hotkey (&Exit), the underline on the Exit
> kind of toggles when I hit the ALT key.
>
> I looked at the Office suite products, like Excel and Word and the
> underline
> is present all the time. Then I looked in IE and the underline on the
> menubar toggles here with the ALT key also.
>
> How do you make the Underline present all the time?

Showing the keyboard navigation indicators
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=showaccelerators&lang=en>

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