# Own Keyboard shortcuts
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [May 14, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737 "2014-05-14T22:15:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@grandpaterry](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/grandpaterry)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737/1 "2014-05-14T22:15:53Z")
Why can't we make our own shortcuts?
Thank you
Terry 
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737/2 "2014-05-15T03:33:32Z")
For what?
E.g. for actions you can define keyboard shortcuts if you include the Ampersand & in the name of an action.
E.g. an action called
"&My action"
Could be accessed via the keyboard with the keys
Alt-6-M
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### Author:  [@Zontir](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zontir)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737/3 "2018-08-23T03:29:17Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> E.g. an action called
> "&My action"
> Could be accessed via the keyboard with the keys
> Alt-6-M
Not work for me
> **[Screenshot](https://prnt.sc/klva3o)**
>
> Captured with Lightshot
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737/4 "2018-08-23T05:14:36Z")
I don't know what you have done but I just checked with 2.89c and it works as described.
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### Author:  [@Zontir](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zontir)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737/5 "2018-08-23T11:50:57Z")
> [@Zontir](#):
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> Alt-6-M
You meant Alt-+-M?
If it's not like that.
What is this key?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737/6 "2018-08-23T16:44:42Z")
No, I meant Alt-6-M
Alt-6 opens the actions list, M is the letter assigned to that example action
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### Author:  [@Zontir](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zontir)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737/7 "2018-08-23T17:00:21Z")
Oh, I get it, it doesn't work for me here anyway.
It works well with Alt+6 but when i press m, it goes to other actions that also start with "M" but without the Ampersand.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737/8 "2018-08-23T17:09:27Z")
The Ampersand should not be visible in the menu, it should appear as underlined character instead.
You can choose any letter that you want to make it unique and therefore quickly addressable.
So you could name the action group
M&y Action
which should result in an underlined "y" and lead to the shortcut
Alt-6-y
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### Author:  [@Zontir](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zontir)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737/9 "2018-08-23T17:24:37Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> it should appear as underlined character instead.
You mean like this? [http://prntscr.com/km4l17](http://prntscr.com/km4l17)
The 3 keys have to be pressed at the same time? Because only Alt+6 works for me. But if I press m, nothing happens. Only the action that begins with the letter m is selected for me.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/own-keyboard-shortcuts/15737/10 "2018-08-23T19:28:40Z")
> [@Zontir](#):
>
> The 3 keys have to be pressed at the same time?
No, it is alt-6 and then m.
This is a common windows function, nothing special in MP3tag.