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From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
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Subject: Re: How do you make the "Help" selection flush right on the menu bar?
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Date: 4 Feb 91 10:10:24 GMT
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In article <1991Feb2.223527.26159@world.std.com> goodearl@world.std.com (Robert Goodearl) writes:
>>This should probably go in the FAQ:
>>
>>Put \a in fron of the string in the menu.
>>
>>e.g.  POPUP     "\a&Help"
>
>Note that while this is documented in the SDK manuals as working for any
>menu entry, it does not work for items in pulldowns.  When I queried Microsoft
>about this via Online, they said that this is not being supported at all.

If you want right aligned text in a pulldown menu item (i.e. Text left
and the name of the accelerator right aligned like in WinWord) use \b
instead of \t to separate the two columns in the menu string. This
should even work with no text on the left side but I have not tested it.
This only works in pulldown menus. As stated above, on the menu bar \a
can be used. The menu item beginning with \a and all items following
this one are placed on the right side of the bar. This means, you can
have several pulldown menus on the left side of the bar as well as
several other menus on the right side of the bar.

Kai Uwe Rommel