Excel: COMMAND+ Underlined Letter Not Working in Dialog Box

• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 1.5, 2.2, 3.0, 4.0

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel, when you use an ampersand (&) to specify an underlined character in a dialog box that uses static text items as labels for edit fields, the underlined character will be displayed in the dialog box, but typing COMMAND+ the underlined character may not activate the corresponding edit field.

For the COMMAND+ underlined character key combination to work properly, the field to be activated by the COMMAND+ underlined character keystroke must immediately follow the static text item in the dialog box definition table. A correct example of this is shown in the "Microsoft Excel User's Guide" version 3.0 manual on page 629. The correct example is also shown in the "Microsoft Excel User's Guide 2," version 4.00 manual on page 273.

MORE INFORMATION

When the Dialog Editor is used to create a custom dialog box, the items within the dialog box are pasted in the order that they were created in the dialog editor. Therefore, if the dialog box was created by first specifying all the static text items and then the corresponding edit fields, the COMMAND+ underlined character keystrokes will not work because the edit fields will not be listed directly below their respective static text items in the dialog box definition table.

REFERENCES

"Microsoft Excel User's Guide 2," version 4.00, page 273

"Microsoft Excel User's Guide," for the Macintosh, version 3.0, page 637