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--- action:Select_or_Show_a_Menu_Item [2017/03/06 03:15] – [Forum] 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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 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 ➤ About APPLICATION|About Word|About 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.