# Main Window Menu

Description | File Menu | Edit Menu | Data Menu | Window Menu | Help Menu | See Also

## Description

The main window menu provides basic functionality for input and output, access to help, and window layout control. These features are always available regardless of the currently focused child window. The menu bar always contains the File, Edit, Data, Windows, and Help menus. Focused windows may add other items to these menus; please see each windows' individual help files for more information.

## File Menu

The File menu contains the necessary functionality for loading and saving worksheets, starting new projects, and importing/exporting data. The New submenu allows for the clearing of current data or the creation of an entirely new worksheet. More information is available on the Creating a New Worksheet page.
The Open function allows the user to load an existing Draco worksheets. All worksheets are stored in a modified OpenDocument Spreadsheet file with the extension ods-draco; more about the file format can be found on the File Format Summary page. The Save feature immediately saves the worksheet under its current name or requests a new name before saving if a name has not yet been specified. The Save As option will prompt the user for a filename before saving the file in the native Draco format.
The Import and Export submenus contain the necessary options for importing external data or exporting to other formats. See the Import and Export help pages for more information.
The Options menu currently contains a single checkable menu item. The Use Quicksave Only option allows Draco to save the data within its native format in a slightly faster and less memory-intensive manner. More information about this feature is found on the File Format Summary and Quicksave Feature pages.
The Close Worksheet option closes the current Draco window. If other Draco windows are open, the program will continue to run. To completely exit the software, select the Exit Draco option.

## Edit Menu

The main window's Edit menu will always contain at least the option to open Draco's internal text editor. When Open text editor... is selected, a new, blank editor window will appear.

## Data Menu

The main window's Data menu contains the View Constants... item, which opens the Constants window.

## Windows Menu

The Windows Menu provides a list of all windows currently open in the software as well as an assortment of window management tools. The first four menu items provide window arrangement facilities. Cascade arranges the windows in a cascading fashion starting in the upper left corner. The tile functions will tile the open windows either in an intelligent grid, tiled horizontally, or tiled vertically.
The second set of options control the current state of the currently selected window. Restore returns the current window to its previous state. Minimize will hide the window, and Maximize will expand the current window to inhabit the entire main window.

## See Also

Creating a New Worksheet
File Format Summary
Quicksave Feature

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