Phantom Keytip conflict in Microsoft Office 2010 Ribbon Custom UI
keyboard-shortcuts, ms-office, office-2010, ribbon
Solution
I was having the same issue and I ended up just changing the keytip value from an uppercase "Z" to a lowercase "z" and it worked. No idea why. Hopefully it works for you.
Problem
I'm trying to create a custom ribbon in one of my Excel 2010 addins, and for some reason Office is overriding some of the keytips (keyboard accelerators). I know if Office sees a conflict it will usually override one or both of the keytips to "Y", "Y2", "Y3", etc.. but in this example I only have one button in my tab so there is no other control for it to conflict with. Here is the XML: ``` <customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2009/07/customui"> <ribbon> <tabs> <tab id="tabid_1" label="SampleTab" keytip = "B"> <group id="grpid_1" label="SampleGroup"> <button id="btnid_1" label="SampleButton" keytip="Z" /> </group> </tab> </tabs> </ribbon> </customUI> ``` Instead of the SampleButton having a keytip of Z, it gets replaced with "Y2". I see this behavior regardless of the keytip of the Tab (which is currently "B"). I checked to make sure that there wasn't some other button with a keytip of "BZ" that might be conflicting, but didn't see any. I also see that behavior if I try to make the keytip of the SampleButton be "Y", but I assume this is because all "Y*" keytips are reserved for conflicts. Incidentally, I was also having this problem with a keytip of "C", but for some un-explained reason that was happening only when I didn't have a label for the `<group>`. As soon as I added a label to the `<group>`, "C" stopped being overridden with "Y2". Very strange behavior. Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? Thanks in advance!