title: Menu Accelerator Keys Not Showing Up (Delphi 2009)
body: <p>I've tried my best and cannot figure out what happened here. It worked fine in Delphi 4. After upgrading to Delphi 2009, I don't know if this is the way it is supposed to work, or if it's a problem:</p>
  
  <p>This is what my program's menu looks like in Design Mode under Delphi 2009:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/lg57M.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/lg57M.gif" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Notice that every word in the Main Menu and the File submenu have one letter underlined. It is supposed to be like this. This underlined letter is called the Accelerator Key and is standard in Windows applications so that you can use the Alt-key and that letter to quickly select the menu item and then submenu item with the keyboard rather than with your mouse.</p>
  
  <p>You get them this way by using the "&amp;" character as part of the caption of the item, for example:  Save &amp;As...</p>
  
  <p>When I run my application, and use the mouse to open the File menu, it looks like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zpw14.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zpw14.gif" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>The characters are underlined in the main menu, but are not underlined in the File menu.</p>
  
  <p>If instead, I use the Alt-F key to open up the File submenu, then it looks correct like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hxwn0.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hxwn0.gif" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>and all the Accelerator Key letters are properly underlined.</p>
  
  <p>I've played with the AutoHotKeys option but that's not the problem.</p>
  
  <p>Has someone encountered this problem before?  Is the example in the 2nd image correct behavior that I don't know of?  Or is there some option or coding mistake that I might have missed?</p>
  
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  <p>Nov 2009 (one year later): mghie seems to have got to the root of this and figured out the problem. See his accepted answer below.</p>