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C1Ribbon (Classic) Task-Based Help / Creating Shortcut Keys
Creating Shortcut Keys

You can use the keyboard to complete specific commands. To make text bold, for example, you could use a direct key combination. To trigger the action, the keys need to be pressed together and most, but not all, key combinations involve pressing CTRL plus other keys (for example, CTRL+B to make text bold).

Note: This topic assumes that you have added a Ribbon button to the group and created a RibbonToggleButton.Click event handler for the Bold button.

Complete the following steps:

  1. Change the Windows Form to a Ribbon Form.
  2. Select the Ribbon button (in this case, the Bold button) to display its properties in the Properties window.
  3. Locate the ShortcutKeys property and select the Ctrl check box and select B from the drop-down list
  4. Click outside the Shortcut Keys editor to accept the changes.
  5. Save and run the application.
    Now when you run the application pressing the CTRL+B key combination will trigger the RibbonToggleButton.Click event for the Bold button and make the selected text Bold font style.