Pull-down Menu

A Menu of related choices that extends from a selected choice on a menu bar or from the system-menu symbol.

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When To Use

Provide a pull-down menu for each choice on a menu bar and for the system menu.

Guidelines

	If you provide choices that do not logically fit within any of the predefined menus, such as the Edit menu or the View menu, provide application specific menu bar choices that lead to menus that logically group your product-specific choices.
	Provide the predefined mnemonic for each predefined textual choice in a menu, unless no meaningful unique mnemonic can be found.
	Provide the predefined shortcut key assignment for each predefined textual choice in a menu.
	Provide a unique shortcut key assignment for each frequently used application specific choice in a pull-down menu.

Essential Related Topics

• Control
• Menu
• Shortcut Key

Supplemental Related Topics

• Action Choice
• Cascaded Menu
• Routing (Choice Type)
• Properties (Choice Type)

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