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Drop-Down Menus
By selecting one of the items on the menu bar,
using the mouse or keyboard, a menu of choices
extends down from the bar. These drop-down
menus contain a number of choices that may be
used to create or modify documents, Figure 7-22.
The Page menu, for example, is used to insert, delete,
or move pages within a document, and provides
choices for quickly moving from page to page. Other
common menu bar selections are File, Edit, Style,
Item, View, Utilities, Window, and Help.
Some menus are context-sensitive menus—
the menu that appears depends on the type of
material being worked on. For example, the Style
menu may display a list of choices that only apply
to text when working with the text on a page. The
list of available Style menu choices changes when
working with an image on the page. Selecting some
items in a drop-down menu prompts a submenu to
display with additional choices, Figure 7-23.
Menu bar
Title bar
Vertical
scroll bar
Horizontal
scroll bar
Pasteboard
Rulers
Layout
page
Display
size
Figure 7-21. Screen layout of one popular page composition program with menu bar along the top and scroll bars
down the right side and at bottom. The pasteboard is a work area, outside the page being composed, which is
used for temporary storage and preliminary assembly of page elements.
pasteboard: An on-screen work area in page composition
programs; used for temporary storage of layout elements
before moving them onto the page.
page grid: A nonprinted set of guidelines on each
composition page that includes guidelines for margins,
columns, gutters, and other basic page elements.
drop-down menus: A selection list within software
programs that extends downward from the menu bar on the
computer display screen.
context-sensitive menu: The characteristic of a selection
menu in page composition software in which the options
that display are dependent on the type of material being
worked on.