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# Menu Editor
Menus allow you to arrange commands in a logical and easy-to-find fashion. With the Menu editor, you can create and edit menus by working directly with a menu bar that closely resembles the one in your finished application.  
  
 For Visual C++ projects, you can use the Menu editor to:  
  
-   [Create Menus](../windows/creating-a-menu.md)  
  
-   [Insert a New Menu Between Existing Menus](../windows/inserting-a-new-menu-between-existing-menus.md)  
  
-   [Create a Menu Command](../windows/adding-commands-to-a-menu.md)  
  
-   [Create a Submenu Menu](../windows/creating-a-submenu.md)  
  
-   [Select Menus and Menu Commands](../windows/selecting-multiple-menus-or-menu-commands.md)  
  
-   [Move and Copy Menus and Menu Commands](../windows/moving-and-copying-menus-and-menu-commands.md)  
  
-   [Create Pop-up Menus](../windows/creating-pop-up-menus.md)  
  
-   [Connect a Pop-Up Menu to Your Application](../windows/connecting-a-pop-up-menu-to-your-application.md)  
  
-   [View a Menu Resource as a Pop-up Menu](../windows/viewing-a-menu-as-a-pop-up-menu.md)  
  
-   [Associate a Menu Command with an Accelerator Key](../windows/associating-a-menu-command-with-an-accelerator-key.md)  
  
-   [Associate a Menu Command with Status Bar Text](../windows/associating-menu-commands-with-status-bar-text-in-mfc-applications.md)  
  
-   [Assigning Access Keys to Menu Commands](../windows/assigning-access-keys-to-menu-commands.md)  
  
-   [Change Menu Command Properties](../windows/menu-command-properties.md)  
  
    > [!TIP]
    >  While using the Menu editor, in many instances, you can click the right mouse button to display a pop-up menu of frequently used commands. The commands available depend on what the pointer is pointing to.  
  
    > [!NOTE]
    >  For Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) programs and ATL programs, you can use Code Wizards to hook menu commands to code. For more information, see [Adding an Event](../ide/adding-an-event-visual-cpp.md).  
  
 For information on adding resources to managed projects, please see [Resources in Desktop Apps](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/f45fce5x.aspx) in the *.NET Framework Developer's Guide.* For information on manually adding resource files to managed projects, accessing resources, displaying static resources, and assigning resource strings to properties, see [Creating Resource Files for Desktop Apps](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/xbx3z216.aspx). For information on globalization and localization of resources in managed apps, see [Globalizing and Localizing .NET Framework Applications](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/h6270d0z.aspx).  
  
## Requirements  
 Win32  
  
## See Also  
 [Working with Resource Files](../windows/working-with-resource-files.md)   
 [Resource Editors](../windows/resource-editors.md)   
 [User-Interface Objects and Command IDs](../mfc/user-interface-objects-and-command-ids.md)   
 [Menus](../mfc/menus-mfc.md)   
 [Menus](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/ms646977.aspx)