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A menu is a board of options available for the user to choose one and activate a certain function computing.

On computing, menus are sets of options or possibilities that are presented to the typical user in order to allow them to choose between the different alternatives and, thus, execute a function, perform a task, start a program or similar. The menu is by nature intended to facilitate and streamline the user experience with the computer.

In conventional operating systems such as Windows, each menu is contained in a menu bar, as in the text processor Microsoft Word, which contains different menu bars that can be added to customize the experience. Each menu, in turn, can contain other more specific and precise menus or submenus.

Typically, menus known with File, Edit, View and Help in a processor from text. But there are many and very varied. The Help menu is perhaps the most used and included in all types of programs and systems.

In turn, the menus are classified as normal, check boxes, radio buttons, submenus, separators and others, according to the function they fulfill or allow.

Operating with a menu is very simple. Often the available options are represented by a name or word that refers to the function they fulfill. But many menus also use icons that tend to have a similar or symbolic relationship with respect to the possibility or alternative that they allow. The user can choose between the different options by clicking on one of them, and in general can go back to select another option.

Menus are used in operations as simple as editing text, but also in more complex ones such as graphic design Y programming computing and web.