Hi there, when I set an UltraTextEditor to ReadOnly it avoids the shortcut handling in menus. In my case there's an MDI Form with a child form that contains the UltraTextEditor. The MDI contains a menu with e.g Edit->Abort. On the abort menu lays the shortcut CTRL+R that is not triggered while the UltraTextEditor is readonly. KeyPreview is true for both, the MDI and the child form. TIA, Frank