ACCPAC PRO 7.2

The first topic I’ll cover this month is Hot Keys in ACCPRO. Sometimes placing a copyright or trademark after an inventory item description is useful. Hot keys let you do this. They also let you run other programs.

Hot keys are created and edited in the System Manager module. Select Setup->System Installation to get to the main screen.


At the System Installation screen click the Hotkeys tab and press edit.

Generally, starting a hot key the ALT key is the best way to go. CTRL for the control key is used by many functions and so are the f1 through f12 keys. The command line is where the command is placed. This command line is actually a Visual FoxPro command in both cases. Keyboard tells ACCPAC to type the following keys in. ‘{End}’ says move to the end of the line. Chr(169) says place a copyright sign in place. 169 being the ASCII code for ©. Once the key is assigned it may be used anywhere an example is in the inventory description.

Note the circled C at the end of the Description.