# Getting Started

## Main Menu

| The main menu contains menu items for using the individual modules, for editing records, for configuring the user interface and the system, and for organizing windows and opening the online help facility.
| The main menu is always visible.
| The individual menu entries open as drop-down menus under the main menu points. Menu entries with arrows contain submenus.
| Menu commands can change according to the current state of the system. Grayed-out menu commands are not available.
| ### Main Menu in SDI Mode
| Start View Tools Manager System Help
| In SDI mode the Windows menu has been removed. Instead, at the end of every object tab, a list "Show List" has been added that shows all opened object tabs.
| ### Main Menu in MDI Mode
| Start View Tools Manager System Window Help
| The Edit menu has been removed in the Java client.