Creating a New Menu

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Writer Guide

Chapter 16: Customizing Writer

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• Introduction
  • Customizing Menu Content
  • Creating a New Menu
  • Modifying Existing Menus
  • Adding a Command to a Menu
  • Modifying Menu Entries
• Customizing Toolbars
  • Modifying Existing Toolbars
  • Adding a Command to a Toolbar
  • Choosing Icons for Toolbar Commands
    • Example: Adding an Insert > Cross-reference Icon to a Toolbar
  • Creating a New Toolbar
• Assigning Shortcut Keys
  • Example: Assigning Styles to Shortcut Keys
  • Example: Assigning Macros to Shortcut Keys
  • Saving Changes to a File
  • Loading a Saved Keyboard Configuration
  • Resetting the Shortcut Keys
• Assigning Macros to Events
• Adding Functionality with Extensions
  • Installing Extensions
  • Using Extensions
    • Template Changer
    • Compose Special Characters
    • Professional Template Pack II
    • PDF Import for Apache OpenOffice

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Creating a New Menu

In the Customize dialog box, click  New  to display the New Menu dialog box, shown in Figure 2.

1. Type a name for your new menu in the Menu name box.
2. Use the up and down arrow buttons to move the new menu into the required position on the menu bar.
3. Click  OK  to save.

The new menu now appears on the list of menus in the Customize dialog box. (It will appear on the menu bar itself after you save your customizations.)

After creating a new menu, you need to add some commands to it, as described in “Adding a Command to a Menu”.

Figure 2: Adding a new menu