Menus are an important way to navigate.

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Mac

Important Menu Items

Some of the most important menu items are:

File Menu: The File Menu has many useful entries. At this point, you will probably want to use the Save As and Print entries. If you want to save the text content of a page you are viewing, use Save As, select the Format of Text, and identify the directory or disk where you wish to save the document. This option will not save the graphics you are viewing, only the text. If you wish to print the document, including the graphics, use the Print entry on the File Menu. The other options will be explored later in the course.
Go Menu: The Go Menu keeps track of where you have been during your online session. Whenever you wish to return to a place you have been, use your Go Menu. When viewing the Go Menu, you will see the most commonly used commands at the the top of the menu. These are Back, Forward, Home, and Stop Loading. Back will take you back in your journey, one step at a time. Forward allows you to return to your present point one step at a time. Home takes you to the page designated as home at the workstation where you are working. This will vary, depending on where you are working. Stop Loading allows you to interrupt Netscape. In the event that a page is taking too long to appear on your screen, you can use the Stop Loading menu item to interrupt the process and go on with your session.

Click on a menu title below if you would like to see a brief description of the action of each menu item. Otherwise, use the arrow below to move on to the explanation of the Toolbar.

What is the Toolbar?

File Menu

New - Open a new window using choices on the sub menu. Choosing Navigator Window allows you to be surfing more than one Web site at a time. Choosing Message will open a new electronic mail window if you have configured your Mail and Groups Identity Preferences. See the Preferences section under the Edit Menu below.

Open Page - Go to an Internet site using the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or open a Web page that is stored on your hard drive or disk by clicking on Choose File. If Navigator is checked, as in the picture below, you will view the site or page you select. If Composer is checked, an HTML editor will open allowing you to edit the Web page you select.

Save As - Saves the document you are viewing to your hard drive (or to a disk.)
Save Frame As - Saves to your hard drive (or to a disk) the document inside the Frame you are viewing. This option will only be available if you are on a Web site that is dividedinto Frames.
Send Page - Open an electronic Mail window with the contents of the current page included as an attachment. Allows you to send a copy of the document you are viewing through email.
Edit Page - An HTML editor will open allowing you to edit the Web page you select.
Edit Frame -An HTML editor will open allowing you to edit the Web page within the Frame you are viewing.
Upload File - Upload a file to an FTP site.
Go Offline - Disconnect from the network if you are using a modem. Page Setup - Displays the Page Setup dialog box in preparation for printing.
Print Preview (Windows) - (Windows) Print Preview displays the current document as it will look when printed.
Print - Displays the Print dialog box allowing you to print the document you are viewing.
Close - Closes the active window.
Quit (Macintosh) or Exit (Windows) - Quit or Exit completely from the Netscape program.

Edit Menu

Undo (Mac Only) - Undo the last action taken.

Cut - Cut selected text to the clipboard.
Copy - Copy selected text to the clipboard.
Paste - Paste the contents of the clipboard. (You can only paste into fields that accept text or graphics. You can NOT paste into the Web document itself.)
Clear (Macintosh only) - Deletes selected text from a text field.
Select All - Selects all text in the field where your cursor is located.
Find in Page - Find a text string within the document you are viewing.
Find Again - Look for the next occurance of a text string you have already searched. (In Windows, this option is found in the Find Dialog Box.)
Search Internet - Opens Netscape's Net Search page with links to most of the major tools for searching the Internet.
Search Directory - Opens a dialog box allowing you to search for people's email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers etc in a variety of directories.
Preferences - Opens a Window that allows you to customize your copy of Netscape 4.0x. If you plan to use Netscape for email, you must configure your email account using the Mail & Groups category. The two essential configuration points are the Identity and the Server information.

Check with your institution for correct information for using Netscape email at your site.

View Menu

Hide Navigation Toolbar - Remove the Navigation Toolbar (Back, Forward, etc buttons) from view to allow you more area on the screen for Web site viewing.

Hide Location Toolbar - Remove the Location field from view to allow you more area on the screen for Web site viewing.
Hide Personal Toolbar (PC Only) - Remove the Personal Toolbar (Back, Forward, etc buttons) from view to allow you more area on the screen for Web site viewing.
Increase Font - Make the font larger on your screen.
Decrease Font - Make the font smaller on your screen.
Reload - Retrieve a document from the server in order to update or reload images.
Show Images - Display all images in the document. (This is useful when you have Automatically Load Images turned off in the Advanced Preferences.)
Refresh (Windows Only) - Refreshes the document by reloading from local memory.
Stop (Page) Loading - Interrupts a document or image transfer. (Same as Stop Button.)
Stop Animations (PC Only) - Stop movement in animated graphics.
Page Source - View the HTML codes for the current document.
Page Info -Information about the current document, including security status.
Page Services - ?
Encoding - Specify encoding scheme for current document.

Go Menu

Back - Return to the previous document. (Same as Back Button.)

Forward - Move forward one document. (Only available when you have gone Back. Same as Forward Button.)
Home - Return to the designated Home Page.
History Items - Each item in this list is a document you have visited this session. The items are listed with the most current first. Return to a document by selecting that item from the menu.

Bookmarks (Menu item on Mac, Toolbar item on PC)

Add Bookmark - Add the document you are viewing to your Bookmark list.

File Bookmark (PC Only) - Allows you to save a bookmark in a specific spot in your bookmark collection. Edit Bookmarks (PC Only) - Opens the Bookmark window. Allows you to rearrange your bookmark collection, delete entries, add category headers, rename bookmarks, etc.
Bookmark Items - Each of your Bookmark Items appears in this Bookmark list. Select any Bookmark from the menu to go to that document.
Bookmark Window Menus
Additional menu items will be available when you have the Bookmark Window open.

Communicator Menu

Navigator -

Messenger Mailbox or Inbox -
Collabra Discussion Groups -
Page Composer -
Conference -
Netcaster -
Show Components Bar -
Message Center -
Address Book - Opens the netscape address book for saving frequently used email addresses.
Bookmarks - Opens the Bookmark Window.
History - Displays a window listing the documents you've visited during this session.
Java Console - Displays the Java Console window (used by Java programmers.)
Security Info - Information about security features of the page you are viewing.
List of Open Windows - Links to all currently open Netscape windows.

Help Menu

Help Contents -

Release Notes - A page with information about this version of Netscape.
Product Information and Support -
Software Updates - A page with information about the latest Netscape software.
Register Now - Links to the page which allows you to register your copy of Netscape.
Member Services -
International Users -
Security -
Net Ettiquette - Answers to common questions about using the Internet appropriately.
About Plugins - A page with a list of and information about Netscape Plugins.
About Font Displayers -
About Communicator -

Pop-Up Menu

For quick access to some of the popular commands, use the Pop-Up Menu. In Windows, clicking the right mouse button produces the pop-up menu. On Macintosh, holding down the mouse button for about 2 seconds produces the pop-up menu. The pop-up menu is particularly useful when pressing the mouse button over a link or image. Over a link, menu items refer to the page specified by the link. Over an image, menu items refer to the image file specified by the image.

Using Netscape's Toolbar