Microsoft Windows Vista On Demand

Using Menus, Toolbars, and Panes

A menu is a list of commands that you use to accomplish certain tasks, such as when you use the Start menu to open the Control Panel. A command is a directive that provides access to a program’s features. Each Windows program has its own set of menus, which are on the menu bar along the top of the program window. The menu bar organizes commands into groups of related operations. Each group is listed under the name of the menu, such as File or Help. To access the commands in a menu, you click the name of the menu. If a command on a menu includes a keyboard reference, known as a keyboard shortcut, you can perform the action by pressing the first key, then pressing the second key to perform the command quickly. You ...