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Figure 2-2 Menu Ellipsis
If a menu item can also be invoked by pressing a hot key (a combination of keys), then the hot key is
displayed to the right of the item.
If a menu item toggles a feature ON or OFF then a check mark (9) will be displayed next to its text when it
is ON:
Figure 2-3 Checked Menu Items
If a menu item has the symbol (8) next to it then a cascading or hierarchical menu is available. Clicking on
the menu item will reveal the cascading menu:
Figure 2-4 Cascading Menus
Menus can also be selected directly from the keyboard by pressing the ALT key followed by the
corresponding key of the underlined letter or number for the menu item that the user wants to select, e.g.
press ALT+F, S in sequence to Save the active file ([File->Save]).