What is the accelerator key, shortcut key and hot key?

[mawenb]

Hi All,

What is the accelerator key, shortcut key hot key on a form?
I'm confused by these concept, who can explain the difference on
them?

If I have a "&Open Ctrl + O" menu item and a button, whose text is
"&Clear".
So what is Alt + O, Ctrl+ O and Alt+C?

 

[missinglinq via AccessMonster.com]

<Ctrl> + a key carries acts as a shortcut to carry out a native Access
function from the menus at the top of an Access app, i.e. <Ctrl> <F> carries
out the Find function. <Alt> + a key acts as a developer defined shortcut. In
the Caption property of a command button, if you place an ampersand in front
of a letter in the caption, <Alt> + this letter becomes the shortcut key. If
a button has a caption of

&Open

then <Alt> + <O> will carry out the action behind that button.

Hopes this helps!

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