Menus Overview
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Table of Contents!> Getting Started!> Introduction!> A first look at the Dreamweaver workspace!> Menus overview Menus overview This section provides a brief overview of the menus in Dreamweaver. The File menu and Edit menu contain the standard menu items for File and Edit menus, such as New, Open, Save, Cut, Copy, and Paste. The File menu also contains various other commands for viewing or acting on the current document, such as Preview in Browser and Print Code. The Edit menu includes selection and searching commands, such as Select Parent Tag and Find and Replace, and provides access to the Keyboard Shortcut Editor and the Tag Library Editor. The Edit menu also provides access to Preferences, except on the Macintosh in Mac OS X, where Preferences are in the Dreamweaver menu. The View menu allows you to see various views of your document (such as Design view and Code view) and to show and hide various kinds of page elements and various Dreamweaver tools. The Insert menu provides an alternative to the Insert bar for inserting objects into your document. The Modify menu allows you to change properties of the selected page element or item. Using this menu, you can edit tag attributes, change tables and table elements, and perform various actions for library items and templates. The Text menu allows you to easily format text. The Commands menu provides access to a variety of commands, including one to format code according to your formatting preferences, one to create a photo album, and one to optimize an image using Macromedia Fireworks. The Site menu provides menu items to create, open, and edit sites, and (on the Macintosh) to manage files in the current site. The Window menu provides access to all of the panels, inspectors, and windows in Dreamweaver. The Help menu provides access to Dreamweaver documentation, including help systems for using Dreamweaver, creating extensions to Dreamweaver, and reference material for a variety of languages. In addition to the menu-bar menus, Dreamweaver provides many context menus, which give you easy access to useful commands pertaining to the current selection or area. To display a context menu, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) an item in a window. All items in context menus can also be found in menu-bar menus. Table of Contents!> Getting Started!> Introduction!> A first look at the Dreamweaver workspace!> Menus overview.