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Customize menus

Hiding and colorizing menu commands is a way to remove menu clutter and emphasize commands you frequently use. Note that hiding menu commands simply removes the menu from view; it doesn’t disable any features. At any time, you can view hidden commands by selecting the Show All Menu Items command at the bottom of a menu. You can include customized menus in workspaces you save.

You can customize the main menu, context menus, and panel menus. Context menus appear when you right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) an area. Panel menus appear when you click the triangle icon in the upper right of a panel.

Create a custom menu set

  1. Choose Edit > Menus.

    You cannot edit the default menu set.

  2. Click Save As, type the name of the menu set, and click OK.
  3. From the Category menu, choose Application Menus or Context & Panel Menus to determine which menus are customized.
  4. Click the arrows to the left of the menu categories to display subcategories or menu commands. For each command you want to customize, click the eye icon under Visibility to show or hide the command; click None under Color to select a a color from the menu.
  5. Click Save, and then click OK.

Select a custom menu set

  1. Choose Edit > Menus.
  2. Choose the menu set from the Set menu, and then click OK.

Edit or delete a custom menu set

  1. Choose Edit > Menus.
  2. Choose the menu set from the Set menu, and then do one of the following:

    • To edit a menu set, change the visibility or color of menu commands, click Save, and then click OK.

    • To delete a menu set, click Delete and then click Yes. If you’ve modified the menu set without saving it, you’re prompted to save the current menu set. Click Yes to save the menu set, or click No to discard changes.

Show hidden menu items

 Choose Show All Menu Items at the bottom of the menu that includes hidden commands.
Holding down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and clicking a menu name temporarily displays any menu commands you’ve hidden by customizing menus.