In addition to mnemonics, a menu item can have an associated keyboard accelerator. Accelerators are different from mnemonics in that the menu need not be active for the accelerator key to work. If you have associated a menu item with a keyboard accelerator, display the accelerator to the right of the menu item. Do this in the resource-definition file by placing a tab character (\t) in the menu text before the characters that will be displayed on the right. For example, if the Close item had the F3 function key as its keyboard accelerator, the text for the item would be Close\tF3.