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SONAR basics
Altering your menus may affect your menus’ hotkeys, which allow you to navigate through the
application’s menus without using a mouse. You can view the hotkeys in your menus by pressing
ALT and observing the underlined letters. Pressing the underlined letter on your keyboard will launch
that menu command. In order to ensure you have no duplicates hotkeys in your customized menu,
do the following.
1. Launch the Menu Editor and select the menu or submenu you wish to check for duplicate
hotkeys. Right-click the menu item and select Check Hotkeys. The Menu Editor will then report
back if duplicate hotkeys are found, or if a command has no hotkey at all.
2. If missing or duplicate hotkeys are found, right-click again and select Generate Hotkeys. New
non-duplicate hotkeys will be assigned for each item in that menu or submenu (but only on the
menu level where you right-clicked, not on any submenus of the menu or submenu that you right-
clicked).
3. If necessary, re-save your layout to preserve these changes.
Customizable toolbars
You can customize each toolbar in SONAR. You can hide or reorder each component of a toolbar, or
add buttons to a toolbar from other toolbars. You can create up to three new toolbars from
components of other toolbars. You can also hide or show all toolbars with a single command, and
dock toolbars vertically if you want.
• To choose what toolbars you want to see, use the View >Toolbars command, and check the
toolbars that you want to see in the dialog box.
• To hide or show all toolbars, use the View > Show Toolbars command. This command is
available in the Key Bindings dialog (Options > Key Bindings command).
Note 1: Keep in mind that the factory default menu layout cannot be overwritten. If you want to
change this layout, save your changes under a new layout name.
Note 2: If you change your menu layout so much that you can’t find some commands, you can
always load the factory default menu layout.
Note: The Check Hotkeys command examines only commands on the menu that you right-
clicked, at the menu level that you right-clicked. It does not examine submenus of that menu.
Note: Hotkeys are indicated within the Menu Editor by ampersands (“&”) in each menu item’s
name. The ampersand is placed directly before the letter that represents the menu item’s hotkey.
If you wish to assign hotkeys manually, you can do so by when you rename a hotkey by placing
the ampersand before your preferred hotkey letter for that command or submenu.
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