Customize Menus

You can create your own menus and add the commands you need. You can restore all menus to the original settings at any time.

You can distribute customized menus and toolbars to other IBM® Cognos® PowerPlay® users.

Procedure

  1. From the Tools menu, click Customize.
  2. Click the Menus tab.

    A list of menu commands appears in the Available Commands box. The Menu Layout box shows the current menu structure.

  3. You can do any of the following.
    Table 1. Menu customization options

    Goal

    Action

    Add menus, submenus, menu separators, or menu commands

    Drag what you want to add from the Available Commands box to the Menu Layout box.

    Show only those menu commands found on a specific menu

    In the Category box, click the name of the menu. For example, click File to show only those commands found on the File menu.

    Rearrange menu commands

    In the Menu Layout box, drag menu commands from one menu to another.

    Delete a menu or menu command

    In the Menu Layout box, click the menu or command and click Remove.

    Change the name of a menu command

    In the Menu Layout box, click the menu command. Under Item Properties, in the Name box, type a new name.

    Change the shortcut key combination of a menu command

    In the Menu Layout box, click the menu command. Under Item Properties, in the Shortcut box, enter a new combination of keys. If a combination of keys is currently assigned to another menu command, a message appears in the message pane that the shortcut is in use.

    Create a menu accelerator key

    In the Menu Layout box, click the menu command. Under Item Properties, in the Name box, type an ampersand (&) and the name of the menu command. For example, &New makes N the accelerator key.
  4. Click OK.

Results

To reset the menus to the default settings on the Menus tab, click Reset.