My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Understanding the Menu Bar

When you visit a restaurant, the waiter hands you a menu. Likewise, when you turn on your Macintosh, it offers you menus of commands in its menu bar. But unlike that restaurant menu, you can select only one item at a time, and you must decide which menu to access to select the items you want.

The menu bar always appears at the top of the screen. Because the menu bar doesn't have enough room to display every command on the screen at once, it organizes related commands into categories, called menu titles. Two commonly used menu titles are File and Edit.

The File menu lists commands you use when working with files. Nearly every program creates files to store data on your Macintosh. A file can be a word processor document, ...