Modifying Existing Menus

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Impress Guide

Chapter 11: Setting Up and Customizing Impress

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• Choosing Options That Affect All of AOO
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• Choosing Options for Impress
  • General Options
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• Customizing the User Interface
  • Customizing the Menu Font
  • Customizing Menu Content
    • Creating a New Menu
    • Modifying Existing Menus
    • Adding a Command to a Menu
    • Modifying Menu Entries
  • Customizing Toolbars
    • Creating a New Toolbar
    • Adding a Command to a Toolbar
    • Choosing Icons for Toolbar Commands
  • Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Saving Changes to a File
    • Loading a Saved Keyboard Configuration
    • Resetting the Shortcut Keys
    • Running Macros from Key Combinations
• Adding Functionality with Extensions
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Modifying Existing Menus

To modify an existing menu, select it in the Menu list and click the Template:Butto button to drop down a list of modifications: Move, Rename, and Delete. Not all of these modifications can be applied to all the entries in the Menu list. For example, Rename and Delete are not available for the menus supplied by AOO.

To move a menu (such as File), choose Menu → Move. A dialog similar to the one shown in Figure 219 (but without the Menu name box) opens. Use the up and down arrow buttons to move the menu into the required position.

To move submenus (such as File | Send), select the main menu (File) in the Menu list and then, in the Menu Content section of the dialog, select the submenu (Send) in the Entries list and use the arrow keys to move it up or down in the sequence. Submenus are easily identified in the Entries list by a small black triangle on the right side of the name.

In addition to renaming, you can specify a keyboard shortcut that allows you to select a menu command when you press  Alt  + an underlined letter in a menu command.

1. Select a menu or menu entry.
2. Click the  Modify  button and select Rename.
3. Add a tilde (~) in front of the letter that you want to use as an accelerator. For example, to select the Save All command by pressing  Alt  +  V  (after opening the File menu using  Alt  +  F ), enter Sa~ve All.

Be careful when using these shortcuts. In the example above, if the File menu is not already open, pressing  Alt  +  V  opens the View menu. However, if another menu is open,  Alt  +  V  might activate a different command.