Drop a RadRichTextEditor and a WinForms button on a form. Set the text of the button to "&Activate" and show a message box in the button click handler. Run the program, and type some text - the button is activated whenever you try to type the letter "a" in the editor. Workarround: Inherit RadRichTextEditor and override IsInputChar method protected override bool IsInputChar(char charCode) { return true; }