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Choosing from a Menu with Buttons or Check Boxes
Some menu choices can be turned
either on or off. When one of these
choices is turned on, a small button
next to the choice is darkened.
When a choice is turned off, the
button is not darkened.
Radio buttons
Check boxes
Choosing from a Submenu
Some submenus themselves
have submenus; these submenus
can also have submenus, and so
on. Y ou make a choice from a
submenu in much the same way
you do from other menus.
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5. When the choice you want is highlighted, release the mouse button. A
corresponding task is initiated and the menu closes (as long as you
selected an undimmed choice).
OR
If you select a menu choice followed by an ellipsis ( ... ), a dialog
box appears so you can provide information about your selection.
OR
Close the menu without making a choice by dragging the mouse
pointer outside the menu and releasing the mouse button.
Radio buttons are one type of button that appear before a menu choice.
They come in groups of two or more, and only one button in the group
can be on at any given time.
Check boxes can come in any number, and any number can be on at a
given time.
For more about check boxes and radio buttons see Responding to a
Dialog Box" in this Chapter.
" To select from a group of radio buttons:
From a group of radio buttons, choose one that is not darkened. The
menu choice is turned on and the button darkens; the previously
selected menu item is turned off.
" To turn on or off a check box choice:
Select the menu choice. If the menu choice was off, then it is now on
(darkened); if the menu choice was on, then it is now off.
Submenus are menus that you can find by selecting a menu choice that
has a right arrow next to it.
Menu
Right Arrows
Rulers Submenu
Ruler Units Submenu
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