Menus
The following section lists the help topics available for menus and dialogs.
 | The window containing the document you want to work on must be selected in order to use the menu commands. Similarly, you must select an object in the document to use the menu commands associated with the object. |
 | The menus are context sensitive. This means that those menu items are available that are relevant to the work currently being carried out. If the cursor is located in a text, then all of those menu items are available that are needed to edit the text. If you have selected graphics in a document, then you will see all of the menu items that can be used to edit graphics. |
By default, you see inactive menu items as gray items.To hide the inactive menu items, go to Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - View and disable the Inactive menu items box.
File
This menu contains commands that apply to the whole document.
Edit
This menu contains commands for editing the contents of a document.
View
This menu contains commands for controlling the on-screen display of the document.
Insert
This menu contains the commands that are used to insert new elements into the document, for example, graphics, objects, special characters and other files.
Format
Contains commands for formatting the layout and the contents of your document.
Tools
Contains spelling tools, a gallery of object art that you can add to your document, as well as tools for configuring menus, and setting program preferences.
Slide Show
Contains commands and options for running a presentation.
Window
Contains commands for manipulating and displaying document windows.
Help
The Help menu allows you to start and control the OpenOffice.org Help system.
Index
This help text is published from the OpenOffice-Help files under the Public Documentation License 1.0.
