About → These → Arrows

Throughout this book, and throughout the Missing Manual series, you’ll find sentences like this one: “Click Start → All Programs → Accessories → Windows Explorer.” That’s shorthand for a much longer instruction that directs you to click the Start button to open the Start menu. Then choose All Programs. From there, click Accessories, and then click the Windows Explorer icon.

Similarly, this kind of arrow shorthand helps to simplify the business of choosing commands in menus, as shown in Figure I-1.

In this book, arrow notations help simplify menu instructions. For example, when you see “Select File → Create → Bound Photo Book,” that’s a quicker way of saying “Go to the menu bar and click File, then slide down to Create, and choose Bound Photo Book from the popout menu.”

Figure 1. In this book, arrow notations help simplify menu instructions. For example, when you see “Select File → Create → Bound Photo Book,” that’s a quicker way of saying “Go to the menu bar and click File, then slide down to Create, and choose Bound Photo Book from the popout menu.”

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