Being Pedantic - Do your buttons have a mnemonic?
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A mnemonic for a button is the letter which has an underscore, and the user can press the button using `Alt-<char>`.
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In Windows Applications, it is quite easy to assign a mnemonic to a button with the "&" character.
So for the case above, the text would be:
```cs
btnAbout.Text = "&About"
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Learn more about the [Mnemonic property on Windows Desktop](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.label.usemnemonic?view=windowsdesktop-7.0&WT.mc_id=WDIT-MVP-33518).
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