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--- action:Select_or_Show_a_Menu_Item [2016/01/02 07:00] – peternlewis
+++ action:Select_or_Show_a_Menu_Item [2019/05/20 01:33] (current) – For menus in the Apple menu, use the title “Apple”. peternlewis
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-The Select or Show a Menu Item allows you to select or show a menu in the main menubar.
+The **Select or Show a Menu Item** action selects a menu item OR shows (opens) a menu in the main menubar.
+{{ :action:select.menu.action.keyboard.maestro.snapz.001.jpg?nolink |}}
 You can choose to execute a menu in the front application, or in a specific application (in which case the application is briefly brought to the front, the menu is selected, and then the front application is restored).
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 Alternatively, you can start the name with an ^ and use a regular expression to match the menu.
-Also the action will translate the word "APPLICATION" (all capitals) into the current application name, allowing menu selections like APPLICATION ➤ About APPLICATION. (!) Note that applications may not have names that match their *Application* menu name (such as Microsoft Word, whose menu name is just Word). You can use APPLICATION as part of a set of multiple items, so you can work around this using *APPLICATION|Word|Excel* for example.
+Also the action will translate the word “APPLICATION” (all capitals) into the current application name, allowing menu selections like *APPLICATION ➤ About APPLICATION*. (!) Note that applications may not have names that match their *Application* menu name (such as Microsoft Word, whose menu name is just Word). You can use APPLICATION as part of a set of multiple items, so you can work around this using *APPLICATION|Word|Excel ➤ About APPLICATION|About Word|About Excel* for example.
+For menus in the Apple menu, use the title “Apple”.
 Before 7.0, unlike most text fields in Keyboard Maestro, the Select Menu Item fields do not process text tokens.  As of 7.0+, the fields do process text tokens.
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 The Select Menu action will, by default, abort the macro if the action is not successful (for example if the menu cannot be found or is disabled). The action can be configured to allow the macro to continue if the menu is not essential (such as “Mark As Read” which might be disabled if the item is already marked as read).
+===== See Also =====
+----
+=== Actions ===
+* [[:Actions|See all Actions]]
+===  Conditions ===
+* [[:Conditions|See all Conditions]]
+=== Tokens ===
+* [[:Tokens|See all Tokens]]
+==== Topics ====
+* [[:Text Fields|Text Fields]]
+* [[:Frequently Asked Questions|FAQ]]
+----
+==== Forum ====
+- [[https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/tag-selected-files/220/6|Tag Selected Files]]
+- [[https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/contextual-menu-items-services/4989/11|Contextual Menu Items/Services]]
+- [[https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/search?q=Select%20Show%20Menu%20Item|Keyboard Maestro Forum topics about Select or Show a Menu Item]]