you are righ Dough, it is accudraw shortcuts that I am looking at. I am trying to only use lower case letters but it does not take the value. I have read that there become some restrictions in the new version of Microstation about adding shortcuts and wonder if that is true and might be the reason for the problem. . 

Keyboard and other shortcuts are separated

They are also limited to 256 total characters in total length when chaining Key Ins together

You need to have focus on a view window for them to activate correctly.

The dialogue you are looking at

Keyboard Shortcuts

Key In 

accudraw dialog shortcuts

Is restricted to only lower case letters and symbols, space bar, and no numbers (numbers are available for sub-menus) AND you cannot use modifier keys with them (Shift, Ctrl, Alt) 

I would also avoid using number pad characters and the following characters, as they are used in some tool-specific dialogues and can cause operational error.

• minus -
• equals =
• semicolon ;
• full stop .
• comma ,
• forward slash /

Inexplicably Bentley's educational videos INCORRECTLY reference the backtick ` as its uppercase tilde ~ character... Huge blunder there 

`
qwertyuiop[]\
asdfghjkl'
zxcvbnm
(space)

F keys

Key In 

dialog funckeys

Are restricted to 1 to 12, but you can use any of the four modifier combinations between NONE and Shift+Ctrl

Whilst they are available, I would avoid all combinations containing ALT as they tend to invoke Windows commands ahead of MicroStation and negatively impact your work.

Mouse Buttons

Mouse Button shortcuts eight modifier combinations between NONE and Shift+Ctrl+Alt (except for NONE+Data and NONE+Reset). I would avoid Ctrl+Data as it interferes with the Element Selection tool.

Button availability is mouse driver dependant, but you can hopefully specify what XButton number they are in the Remap Button sub-dialogue if Microstation recognises a unique input from the mouse's driver. By default the middle mouse button, which has become the scroll wheel button for most mouses is Xbutton 1. You can combine any simultaneous two button press together as a 'Chord' to create a new Xbutton. Right+Left chord is the default Tentative mapping, but can be remapped. This is also useful for left handed mouse users having control issues.

Key In 

dialog buttonmap

There are options for touchpad gestures, but I have no experience with them

Key In 

gestureassignments open