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Recognize menus and ribbons

Recognize menus and ribbons - Mac OS Tutorial

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Recognize menus and ribbons

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- Menus are a common way to activate commands on both Mac and Windows. I'm running the Chrome web browser here on the Mac and if I click the word file, up at the top of the screen, it opens a menu. So when you click something and it opens a list of commands that you can activate, that is a menu and in this case, I would call this the file menu. When you're working on a Mac, this menu bar is always there at the top of the screen. The very first menu item is the system menu and you can open that by clicking the Apple logo. The second menu has the name of whichever application is currently active. Since I'm looking at the Chrome web browser, the application menu says Chrome. Then I have other menus and these menus change depending on which application you're running. So for example, in the Chrome web browser, the file menu is where I would go to make a new tab or to print the page, stuff like that. On Windows, you…

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