SysOp> ...The keys which we cannot conventionally control are F10, SysOp> Alt-Tab, Alt-Esc, Alt-Space, Alt-Enter, Alt-PrtSc, Ctrl-Esc, SysOp> PrtSc. Also, the complete alphabet under TABLE=ALT is mapped SysOp> to accelerator keys. You can remap all of these keys except SysOp> ALT-F. Windows will not allow us to remap this. You confused me there. Are you talking about XyWrite for DOS or for Windows? I haven't found *any* reserved keys in Xy4-DOS. Memory may be failing me but ... hmmm, I think not. Whereas in XyWin -- whew! You understate the difficulties, I think. Many keys in the ALT table are out the window (so to speak). If you think that we can remap "all of these [Alt] keys except Alt-F", well then, NO WONDER you don't consider this a grave problem! Because that's just incorrect. If, for example, I assign (in KBD) a U2 program to Alt-H, XyWin first accesses the Help bar up on the menu line, and then (if I escape out of Help) runs the mapped program. It's nuts. My notes to myself when I was trying to configure this bloody XyWin say that TABLE=ALT+SHIFT isn't mappable either; I had to use TABLE=LCTRL+SHIFT+ALT instead. (This was shortly before I gave up on XyWin: I can't have hopeless keyboard inconsistencies between various versions of the same program.) RSHIFT (Shift key 54) can't be separated from LSHIFT (key 42); in fact, RightSHIFT picks up whatever you assign to LeftSHIFT even if your DEFINITIONS table only says "SHIFT=42". Let's see: do distinctions between LeftALT (56) and RightALT (98), and between LeftCTRL (29) and RightCTRL (99), work? Gotta try it ... Yeah, they both work. But then the Function keys are quirky/abnormal. I got very tired trying to keep track of what worked and what didn't; for me it passes way beyond the threshold of tolerance. If I wanted to use a CUA keyboard, I'd use MicroSoft Word. It's so irritating that XyQuest has subtly modulated into a mindset (or promotes a mindset) which **assumes** that we're going to use the CUA keyboard, or whatever keyboard XyQuest has prepared; whereas the main reason to use a word processor like this is user configurability and control. Even if I wanted to change old habits which my fingers know by heart, its a fact that most of the keys on a keyboard are useful and therefore not attractive to sacrifice as shifting keys; the only real "free" keys are ALT, CTRL, SHIFT, and maybe PrintScreen.