Using Pull Down Menus   You're accustomed to pulling down menus within your programs: File, Edit, View, Insert, and so on. Within your favorite software programs you can often find other "nested" menus available. A great place to look for these hidden pull-down menus is under the button icons along the top of the screen. Anyplace you see a small downward pointing triangle to the right of the icon, it indicates a pull-down menu filled with options. In Microsoft Word you'll find icon pull-down menus providing options for: Undo, Redo, Insert Table, Columns, Style, Font, Font Size text Highlight, and Font Color. In your Internet browser software find tiny downward pointing arrows which pull down to activate Back, Forward, and the Address or Location bar which shows you recently visited Web pages. In Microsoft Outlook a most useful drop-down menu is nested just to the right of the New button. Whether you're currently working in Outlook's mail, Calendar, Notes or another Outlook component, you can add any kind of new item without first switching to that component's view. For instance, while viewing your e-mail Inbox you could use the drop down menu (next to the New button) to add a new Calendar appointment: you don't have to switch to the Calendar first. Back to Tip of the Month

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