Back in college, when I was working in the computer lab on campus, it was a requirement to know Microsoft Word backwards and forwards. That's because half the students in there were creating resumes. The biggest issue was using spaces to line up columns so I spent a lot of time fixing resumes, for which I got little thanks. Wait! What was I going to talk about? Oh yeah... custom menus. The reason I mention Microsoft Word is I loved a feature that allowed you to customize the menus to my preferences so I could remove the clutter I didn't want to see. I haven't used Word in decades so I'm now partial to customizing menus in FileMaker to make it easier to use. I won't be covering the basics in this article so you might want to bone up on custom menus in the online help before reading this article.

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