Using Pulldown Menus Pulldown menus are accessed from the labels that represent them. When you select the label of a Pulldown menu, the menu pane appears as if you had pulled down a window shade. The most commonly used Pulldown menus in an application are placed on the MenuBar of an application. A typical File menu pulled down from a MenuBar is shown below. Pulldown menus contain items that perform common application actions.
Pulldown menus can also contain nested submenus called cascading menus.
As you drag through each title, the corresponding menu will be displayed. You can cancel a spring-loaded interaction by moving the pointer anywhere outside of the menu system and releasing Button 1. Use the left and right arrow keys to select a menu. Use the arrow keys to move to the menu item that you want to select. You can cancel a menu using the keyboard by pressing .