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MENUEDIT (VERSION 1.00)
Copyright (c) 1996 Ziff Davis Publishing Company by Douglas Boling 
First Published October 22, 1996 ________________________________________________________________ 
About MENUEDIT... 
Description MenuEdit lets you easily edit the commands available on context menus and add new ones. You can make menu commands available to all files on the system,  to all files of a specified type, or to all file types the system does not know about.  You can also set the default command to be executed when an icon is double-clicked. 
Usage To install MenuEdit, copy the program file Menuedit.exe to a directory on your hard disk and create a shortcut to it. When you launch MenuEdit, you'll see a set of three  radio buttons on the left side of the window; these let you select file types. The first  option, Menu Items for All Files, lets you edit the context menus for all file types on your system. The second option, Menu Items for Unknown Files, lets you edit the  context menus for file types not registered on your system. If you select the last option, Menu Items for Specific File Types, the file-type list box below the radio buttons will become enabled, allowing you to select from all of the file types registered on your  system. 

When you select a file type from the list, the commands associated with that file  type appear in the list box on the right side of the window. You can add to this  list by pressing the New button. If you select an item in the list and press the Edit  button, the command associated with that menu item will be displayed for editing.  If you press Delete, the item will be removed from the menu. If you select Default,  the selected item will be the one chosen when you double-click on a file of that  type. 
Some programs, such as Microsoft Word for Windows or Microsoft Excel, can  communicate with each other through DDE. If the command associated with the  item launches a program that accepts DDE, you can check the DDE box and add  DDE commands. See the manual or online help for the DDE-enabled program to  find out the correct syntax. 

Support  Help for PC Magazine's free utilities can be obtained electronically in the Utilities section of ZD Net's TIPS Forum (GO ZNT:TIPS). The authors of current utilities generally visit this forum daily. You may find an answer to your question simply by reading the messages posted in the forum. If the author is not available and the forum sysops can't answer your question, the Utilities column editor, who also  checks this forum each day, will contact the author for you. ________________________________________________________________ Douglas Boling is a contributing editor of  PC Magazine. 
