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Working with Menus
Many applications share basic
features such as opening, saving,
copying, and printing documents.
Applications often have similar
menus because shared features
work the same way in each
application. Almost every
application has a File, Edit, V iew,
and Options menu. Once you
know how to use choices from
these menus in one application,
you know how to use them in
others.
Opening a Menu and Making a Choice
Menu
choices
This menu choice
has an ellipsis (...).
An application menu, like a restaurant menu, contains a list of choices.
When you select a choice from a menu, the application begins that
function or activates that feature. For example, to print a document, you
choose Print from the File menu, and the Print dialog box opens.
When you open a menu, it appears on your screen, and you select from
it. Menu choices that are not currently available appear dimmed; if you
select a dimmed menu choice, nothing happens. For example, in
Addressbook, Copy Record is dimmed until you first view an existing
record.
Every application has its own set of menus. You do not see the menu
itself until you click on the menu name. This is called opening a menu.
" To choose from a menu by clicking:
1. Click on the name of a menu on the menu bar. The menu opens.
2. If the choice you want is not on this menu, click the name of another
menu. The first menu closes and the second appears. Continue clicking
menu names until you see the choice you want.
OR
If you select a menu choice followed by an ellipsis ( ... ), a dialog
box appears so you can provide more information about your
selection.
3. Click on the choice you want. As long as you select an available choice, a
corresponding action is initiated and the menu closes.
OR
Close the menu without making a choice by clicking anywhere
outside the menu.
" To choose from a menu by dragging:
1. Position the pointer over the name of a menu on the menu bar.
2. Press and hold down the left mouse button and the menu appears.
Continue to hold down the mouse button as you drag the pointer left or
right across the menu bar. The menu for each menu name appears.
3. When the menu appears with the choice you want, pause, but do not
release the mouse button.
4. Drag the mouse pointer down the list of menu choices in the open
menu. As you drag through the choices, each choice in turn is
highlighted.
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