diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 1864f9ed74..fc00a52cec 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-07-16  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <lasgouttes@freesurf.fr>
+
+	* MenuBackend.C (expand): add numeric shortcuts to document menu
+
 2002-07-15  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <lasgouttes@freesurf.fr>
 
 	* lyxfont.C (setLyXFamily): 
diff --git a/src/MenuBackend.C b/src/MenuBackend.C
index 16ab82f30c..0bb7f4c975 100644
--- a/src/MenuBackend.C
+++ b/src/MenuBackend.C
@@ -296,14 +296,17 @@ void Menu::expand(Menu & tomenu, Buffer * buf) const
 				break;
 			}
 
+			int ii = 1;
 			Strings::const_iterator docit = names.begin();
 			Strings::const_iterator end = names.end();
-			for (; docit != end ; ++docit) {
+			for (; docit != end; ++docit, ++ii) {
 				int const action = lyxaction
 					.getPseudoAction(LFUN_SWITCHBUFFER,
 							 *docit);
-				string const label =
-					MakeDisplayPath(*docit, 30);
+				string label = MakeDisplayPath(*docit, 30);
+				if (ii < 10)
+					label = tostr(ii) + ". "
+						+ label + '|' + tostr(ii);
 				tomenu.add(MenuItem(MenuItem::Command,
 						    label, action));
 			}
diff --git a/src/support/ChangeLog b/src/support/ChangeLog
index 4a8b00178f..598264d1d2 100644
--- a/src/support/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/support/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 	* filetools.C (IsLyXFilename):
 	(IsSGMLFilename): use ascii_lowercase instead of lowercase
 
+	* lstrings.[Ch] (ascii_lowercase): new function
+
 2002-06-13  Angus Leeming  <leeming@lyx.org>
 
 	Fixes needed to compile with Compaq cxx 6.3.
diff --git a/status.12x b/status.12x
index a7e8e0d408..5a2f01c61d 100644
--- a/status.12x
+++ b/status.12x
@@ -27,13 +27,19 @@ What's new
 
 - update finnish, danish, french and russian localizations
 
-- update Tutorial to be more up to date
+- update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
 
 - better support for entering cyrillic and greek alphabets
 
+- cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
+  obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
+  M-p asterisk 6)
+
+- add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
+
 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor keys
 
-- update template for IEEEtran; update hebrew article class
+- update template for IEEEtran; small update to hebrew article class
 
 ** Bugfixes