Need help with Office 2007 keytips use

[Dave Jenkins]

I'm trying to replicate, in RibbonX, the menu keytip structure we were using
in PowerPoint 2003. In particular, I'm having difficulty getting keytips to
show up for groups and menu elements. Here is a portion of my RibbonX:

<tab id="WISPubsTools" label="WIS Pubs Tools" keytip="P">
<group id="editGroup" label="Editing" keytip="E">
<menu id="speakerComments"
keytip="C"
label="Speaker comments"
imageMso="MailMergeRecipientsEditList"
size="large">
<button id="toSpeakersButton" keytip="I"
label="Insert comment"
supertip="Insert embedded speaker comment"
screentip="Insert comment to speaker"
imageMso="ReviewEditComment"
onAction="RibbonXOnAction"
....


What I would like to happpen is that the user can press ALT+P, E, C, I to
insert a comment (these are home-grown comments, not the standard PPT ilk).
All that shows when I do Alt+P is "C1" for the Speaker Comments menu - there
are no keytips for the group or for the individual menu elements.


Is it even possible to do what I'm attempting? And if so, can you supply me
with some sample xml that will demonstrate the proper coding for this?


Thanks!

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

I have not been very successful with KeyTips myself. However, what has
worked reasonably well is using an & in the label. For example,
&Editing. Note that when you do this in XML, you need to use &amp;
instead of just &

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[Dave Jenkins]

Thanks, Patrick.

The & method seems to work for generating the keyptips, but it doesn't seem
to work for the Group and Menu level items, which is what I'm looking for. I
guess I'll give up on that for the time being and will have to tell my users
that they won't be able to use the same shortcut key hierarchy they used in
2003. 'Tis a pity ...

I have not been very successful with KeyTips myself. However, what has
worked reasonably well is using an & in the label. For example,
&Editing. Note that when you do this in XML, you need to use &
instead of just &

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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