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In addition to the ability to customize your palette, as we saw in the last movie, we can now customize our menus in InDesign. What does that mean? For example, if I have the view menu here and I say zoom in, zoom out, fit to page, I know shortcut keys. I really don't need to use these at all. I can now remove them there, making this seem a little bit cleaner so that the ones I do use the menu for are a little bit easier to find, instead of going through a number like this. If you're used to Microsoft Word or many of theÉExcel, any of those programs, you know that they hide some of the ones that you don't use too often. Personally, I find that very frustrating because when I'm looking for one, I find them really hard to find. The nice thing about InDesign is it's letting you choose which ones you want to hide. So to do that, we go to the edit menu and go to menu here. Here we can see the menus that we can change, the application menus, or we can change context and panel menus. Let's just start up with the application menus here and we'll go to this view, one that I talked about. Notice that we have this eye on the side of each one of them. Now, the ones I said I don't use are zoom in, zoom out, fit to window, fit in window, actual size, page forward. Structure I don't use anyway. Display performance I don't use and screen mode. Show hyperlinks, I don't use that one. So I've just gone through all these, the ones that I don't want. Click on OK. Now when I pull down the view menu here, you can see that it's much simpler than before. However, there is one option at the bottom, show all menus. If I click it, it does show the other ones that we had before. If I click away, click it again, it goes back to the abbreviated version. So you choose which ones you want to see here, not the program itself. It's a much better way. Now let's take a look at the other option we saw there in the customize menus palette. First of all, let's look over here at this arrow at the end. Here you can see a number of options that we have on the right hand side. I'm going to change those ones, just so that you know what's available. If we go down to the edit menu, choose menus and instead of choosing the application menus, choose context and panel menus. Now, there's a huge amount of information here, but this is actually going through and customizing all these palettes and menus that we have seen before, so I'm just going to choose that one that we pulled out there so you could actually see it. There's Control Panel layout menu. Here you can see that we have a number of options here and again, just like we did previously, you can turn them all off, like this. Float so that you have these options no longer available. Click on OK. Pull down here and there you can see that this is now simplified. These changes that we have up here in the menus and all these relate to all these other panels here, so if you want to customize those, you can go ahead and do it as this. Once you've done this, you can save it so that you can go back and change it again. We can hit save as and we'll just type menus 1. Hit OK. So if we didn't want them, we could just come up InDesign defaults, click on OK and when we click here, these menus are back, pull down the view menu and all those ones are back and if we want to go back to your other view, menus, come over here, menus 1, click on OK. Here this has disappeared. Come over to our view menu and all those ones there have disappeared. So it's easy switching back and forward.