Hi Micheal,
I will not tell them to buy "The Book", neither will I shamelessly Plug a Book that I may have written.
I will do my best help you, but first... I did not write Barry's book, but I am a VERY strong advocate of folks like yourself buying the book. Not because Barry is a friend and all around good guy, but because it is worth every penny. Barry has made tens of thousands of posts helping people with DCS over the last ten years and has been hugely generous with his time. And, he continues to do so even though his book has been out for a few years. He frequently quotes information directly from the book. He doesn't deserve to get negative attitude from people for making a few pennies after all he has done for the hobby.
The solution to your problem is covered on pages 32 and 33 of the DCS Manual (5th edition). The softkeys for each engine are held in a list. Most engines have about 35 (give or take a couple) softkeys in that list. However, only the top 15 are visible using the softkeys. Scroll through the soft keys using the S5 key (the one with the arrow above it) until you see "more" over the S4 key. Press S4 and you will enter the softkey list at spot #16. In the list, the softkeys are described by their full name, not just the alphanumeric abbreviation. IIRC, the MOP softkey appears in the list as "Pantograph Menu." Scroll up and down in the list until you find the feature. Once you have the scrolling arrow next to the panto menu feature you can press the S2 softkey (move) and relocate the feature to one of the top 15 spots in the list. You can use this method to re-order any and all the softkeys to make the ones you like the most accessible from the softkeys in the engine view.
