# Menu Bar

The **Menu Bar** of Ancestris gives you access to all available actions via 7 menus.

[![en-menubar.png](https://docs.ancestris.org/uploads/images/gallery/2020-09/scaled-1680-/en-menubar.png)](https://docs.ancestris.org/uploads/images/gallery/2020-09/en-menubar.png)

## Logic of the menu organisation

To easily find the actions you are looking for, here is the organisation we chose for the menus.

### [File Menu](https://docs.ancestris.org/books/user-guide/page/file-menu-%28l%29 "File Menu")

This menu regroups all the actions **to handle genealogy files**.

- Create, open, close, save, import, merge, export, change its properties, add to favourites
- Exit the application

### [Edit Menu](https://docs.ancestris.org/books/user-guide/page/edit-menu-%28l%29 "Edit Menu")

This menu regroups all the actions **to make global changes to your genealogical data**.

- Undo / Redo
- Cut / Copy / Paste
- Find / Replace / Delete
- Generate Sosa or D'Aboville numbering
- Change ID numbers
- Mark special individuals
- See modifications history

### [View Menu](https://docs.ancestris.org/books/user-guide/page/view-menu-%28l%29 "View Menu")

This menu regroups all the actions **to access the genealogical views.**

These views show specific aspects of your genealogy and some let you edit your genealogy as well (e.g. editors, dynamic tree).

### [Tools Menu](https://docs.ancestris.org/books/user-guide/page/tools-menu-%28l%29 "Tools Menu")

This menu regroups all the actions **to explore, manipulate and analyse genealogical data**.

- Genealogical Search among Ancestris users,<span style="text-decoration: underline;">  
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- Consult registers records and use them to enrich your genealogy
- Miscellaneous utilities (date calculation, calculator)
- Verify data (anomalies, duplicates)
- Analyse data (common ancestors, lists and reports)
- Publish locally on disk or on the Internet
- Print the active view

### [Window Menu](https://docs.ancestris.org/books/user-guide/page/window-menu-%28l%29 "Window Menu")

This menu regroups all the actions **to handle Ancestris windows**.

- Access to special windows
- Handling windows : open, close, float, dock, clone, set to full screen

### [Options Menu](https://docs.ancestris.org/books/user-guide/page/options-menu-%28l%29 "Options Menu")

This menu regroups the main actions **to customize Ancestris.**

- Preferences
- Save display settings
- Configure tools bar
- Update Ancestris
- Manage Plugins

### [Help Menu](https://docs.ancestris.org/books/user-guide/page/help-menu-%28l%29 "Help Menu")

This menu regroups all the actions **to get help** and **to help Ancestris.**

- All the documentation
- Contact Ancestris support team
- Make a donation
- Ancestris website
- About Ancestris

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## Using the menus

Like the menu bar in many software programs, each menu in the Ancestris menu bar can be opened in two ways.

- or by clicking on it
- or by typing the key combination: &lt;Alt&gt; + the underlined letter in the name of the corresponding menu. For example, to open the Tools menu, type &lt;Alt&gt;+t.

Each action of the menu has:

- an icon illustrating the action, when this icon exists
- the name of the action
- a keyboard shortcut to launch this action without going through the menu, when it exists

Here is an example with the File menu


[![en-File-menu.png](https://docs.ancestris.org/uploads/images/gallery/2020-09/scaled-1680-/en-File-menu.png)](https://docs.ancestris.org/uploads/images/gallery/2020-09/en-File-menu.png)

Similarly, each action can be initiated in several ways:

- either by clicking on it in the menu
- or when the menu is opened by typing the key combination: &lt;Alt&gt; + the underlined letter in the action name
- or when the menu is closed by typing the keyboard shortcut of the action (Ctrl-N or Ctrl-S in the example above)