i was wondering if anyone else had dealt with this, or more importantly, found a better way around it: if i have a mnu or cui file that i want to have accelerator keys defined, it will accept anything i have programmed in except for ones that are already set as something (ctrl+s = qsave, ctrl+o = open, etc.) if i want to overwrite these, i have to manually go into the cui editor and remove or redefined them so autocad will accept mine. it's not a huge deal, but it is rather annoying. i just thought i would query you guys, i'm sure i'm not alone in this.