{"id":42293,"date":"2003-10-03T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/10\/03\/why-cant-i-use-accelerators-on-the-start-menu\/"},"modified":"2003-10-03T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-03T09:51:00","slug":"why-cant-i-use-accelerators-on-the-start-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031003-00\/?p=42293","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#039;t I use &amp;-accelerators on the Start menu?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>         The first letter of the program is the accelerator and there&#8217;s nothing you can do         about it. So if you have ten programs by Microsoft, they all use the accelerator &#8220;M&#8221;.         (Yes I hate this too. The first thing I do after installing a Microsoft program is         go into the Start menu and delete the word &#8220;Microsoft&#8221; from the front.)      <\/p>\n<p>         For Win32 menus, the ampersand character acts as the marker for the menu accelerator.         For example, you would set your menu text to &#8220;Save &amp;As&#8221; to set Alt+A as the accelerator         for the menu item.      <\/p>\n<p>          This isn&#8217;t done for the Start menu and for the Favorites menu because the ampersand         appears in program names occasionally. Otherwise, &#8220;AT&amp;T Internet&#8221; would end up         displaying as &#8220;AT<u>T<\/u> Internet&#8221;. (This was a real problem in Windows 95, where         the Start menu was constructed from your old Program Manager groups, and occasionally we&#8217;d run across one that had an ampersand in its name.)   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first letter of the program is the accelerator and there&#8217;s nothing you can do about it. So if you have ten programs by Microsoft, they all use the accelerator &#8220;M&#8221;. (Yes I hate this too. The first thing I do after installing a Microsoft program is go into the Start menu and delete the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-42293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The first letter of the program is the accelerator and there&#8217;s nothing you can do about it. So if you have ten programs by Microsoft, they all use the accelerator &#8220;M&#8221;. (Yes I hate this too. The first thing I do after installing a Microsoft program is go into the Start menu and delete the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}