Menu Stirp

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I have Visual Studio.Net 2005 I have created a project and have added a menu
strip control with menu items File and Help. In the text I have typed &File
and &Help respectively to add the accelerator key so to underline the letters
F and H, and the letters are underlined in the design view. but when I run
the program the letters are not underlined. What am I not doing?

[Peter Duniho]

Re: Menu Stirp

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:46:00 -0700, tracktor
<tracktor@discu ssions.microsof t.comwrote:

I have Visual Studio.Net 2005 I have created a project and have added a
menu
strip control with menu items File and Help. In the text I have typed
&File
and &Help respectively to add the accelerator key so to underline the
letters
F and H, and the letters are underlined in the design view. but when I
run
the program the letters are not underlined. What am I not doing?

You don't have your Windows settings configured to show the underline.
Most likely, they will appear when you press the Alt key; the default
setting is for them to only show up then.

If it bothers you, you can change the setting so that the underlines are
always there. I don't recall exactly where the setting is, but Google
should be able to help you find an appropriate "Windows user" forum where
that information can be found.

Pete

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Re: Menu Stirp

Peter,

You are right. But I am curious, the menu items on all of my programs are
not underlined unless I press Alt, but on Microsoft Word they are always
visible. Do you know why that is?

"Peter Duniho" wrote:

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:46:00 -0700, tracktor
<tracktor@discu ssions.microsof t.comwrote:
>

I have Visual Studio.Net 2005 I have created a project and have added a
menu
strip control with menu items File and Help. In the text I have typed
&File
and &Help respectively to add the accelerator key so to underline the
letters
F and H, and the letters are underlined in the design view. but when I
run
the program the letters are not underlined. What am I not doing?

>
You don't have your Windows settings configured to show the underline.
Most likely, they will appear when you press the Alt key; the default
setting is for them to only show up then.
>
If it bothers you, you can change the setting so that the underlines are
always there. I don't recall exactly where the setting is, but Google
should be able to help you find an appropriate "Windows user" forum where
that information can be found.
>
Pete
>
>

[Peter Duniho]

Re: Menu Stirp

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:15:01 -0700, tracktor
<tracktor@discu ssions.microsof t.comwrote:

Peter,
>
You are right. But I am curious, the menu items on all of my programs are
not underlined unless I press Alt, but on Microsoft Word they are always
visible. Do you know why that is?

Word doesn't use the built-in menu system. You don't say which version of
Word you're looking at, but it's possible there's a setting in Word that
controls whether the underlines exist. But the discussion is definitely
not about C# or .NET now, so if you want more information, it's probably
better to seek it in a newsgroup that pertains to the use of Word. :)

Pete