Menus in mouse-based applications stay out of sight until you need them. In this respect, they are like those maps you may have had in elementary school. The teacher pulled down the map to teach geography, then rolled it up to demonstrate subtraction on the blackboard.

To pull down a menu in a mouse-based application, just point to the title of the menu and hold down the mouse button. (The menu will remain visible until you release the mouse button.)

Each word or picture on the menu bar represents a different menu. Each application has its own menus, but there is almost always one called the File menu. The File menu is the menu you'll use when you want to do something to the document as a whole—save it on a disk, quit using it, and so on.

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Menu

Using mouse-based programs

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