Creating a New Menu

On the Commands tab of the Customize dialog (see Customize Dialog: Commands Tab), you can view the menus and commands available on the menu bar in Designer. You can create a menu and populate it with commands from the menus appearing on this tab. In conjunction with options on the Toolbars tab, you can create a toolbar to display frequently used commands together (again by copying commands from this tab).

To create a menu, perform these tasks:

1. Click View, then select Customize.

2. On the Commands tab, under Categories, click New Menu.

3. Under Commands, click New Menu and hold down the mouse button.

   A small icon appears.

4. Drag the icon to the Menu bar. Release the mouse button.

   The menu "New Menu" appears on the Menu bar.

5. Click New Menu on the Menu bar, and you see an empty space below the menu name.

   You can populate the menu by dragging and dropping commands from other menus into this space.

6. Click Close to close the Customize dialog.

Notes

• You can change the name of a menu you create by right-clicking the menu and clicking Button Appearance on the popup menu.

• See Customizing Toolbars for information on creating a toolbar on the Toolbars tab. After you've done that, you can drag and drop commands from the Commands tab onto this toolbar. (When you use drag and drop, you copy commands to the toolbar. The commands remain available in their original menu.)

• See Customizing Menus for information on customizing the right-click popup menus in Designer.

• To remove a menu that you created, click the menu and, with the mouse button held down, drag it from the menu bar and release the mouse anywhere.