Other Menus and their Visual Clues

You’ll find other menus in all kinds of odd places. Well, they won’t seem so odd once you become accustomed to the visual clues that indicate a menu is hiding. In the dialog box below, can you see the menus?

Double arrows

Double arrows are one visual clue that a dialog box contains a menu. Whenever you see that double arrow, as shown below, you can click anywhere in that horizontal bar and a menu will pop up or down.

Do you see the three menus in this dialog box? You recognize them by the double arrows. Click on any one of these and a menu will pop up or down.

Watch for shadows

In the example below, the ...

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