Depending on the application, you then either move to a more specific menu or start doing whatever you choose to do from the main menu. In some applications, secondary menus are displayed overlapping the main menu, with enough of the main menu showing to remind you where you are in the application. (See Figure 3-13.)

Figure 3-13
Overlapping menus

In most keyboard-based applications you get back to the main menu by press Esc or Open-Apple-Esc. Esc stand for escape. and that's what it lets you do. It's sort of the opposite of pressing Return. While pressing Return confirms a choice, pressing Esc usually cancels a choice or extricates you from an activity.

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