I'm using LC 7.0.1. Looking at both the LC User Guide and the Dictionary, I 
find that I don’t exactly understand the way you put keyboard shortcuts into 
menus and get them to activate, especially on Windows. I note for example:

1. The ‘&’ character is always present in a menu item which is also intended to 
work as a keyboard shortcut, but it isn’t always at the beginning of the menu’s 
text. Is there are reason for this, or is it just wilful eccentricity on the 
part of the Menu Builder?

2. In a cross platform app, I use a script at startup to switch the last item 
of my 'File' menu from the Mac’s ‘Quit’ text

  &Quit/Q

to the Windows equivalent

 &Exit/x

This looks OK on the menu item display, but I don't think this works, even 
though the standard shortcuts (Cut, Copy, Paste) work in the 'Edit' menu, and 
they don't look any different in form. Naturally I may just have made a silly 
mistake, but so far I can't see what it is.

Can anyone explain what is going on behind the scenes?

BTW, I don't especially care for the Menu Builder, but it seems that the LC 
documentation assumes one is going to use it - maybe that's why the 
documentation is a bit sketchy.

TIA

Graham
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