Main Menu
While working with the project window the Main menu looks like
this:

It consists of the following menus:
The File menu

The File menu contains commands for working with
files: opening, closing and saving files. Its commands are:
- New - To create a new project in
ConceptDraw Project.
To create a new project:
a)
Click the File/New option.
b) Select the
Project or Project with Assistant
option in the submenu which appeared and click it.

- Project - creating a project
independently,
- Project with Assistant - creating
a project using Assistant.
- Open - to
open an existing project or any file.
- Close - to
close the active project.
- Save - to save the
current project. See the Developing Projects - Saving A Project section for more
details.
- Save as... - to save the current project
with another name. See the Developing Projects - Saving A Project section for more
details.
- Save Copy As... - to save a project
copy with another name.
- Import - to create a
project on the basis of the information taken from files of other
formats.

- MS Outlook - to create a project on the basis of
the information taken from the task list of Microsoft
Outlook
- MindMap Outline - to create a project on
the basis of the information taken from ConceptDraw
MindMap.
- MSProject Outline - to create a
project on the basis of the information taken from Microsoft
Project.
- The Export menu options:

- MSOutlook - to save the project in the Microsoft
Outlook task list format.
- MindMap Outline - to
save the project in the ConceptDraw MindMap
format.
- MSProject Outline - to save the project
in the Microsoft Project Outline format.
- MSProject 2002
XML - to save the project in the Microsoft Project 2002 XML
format.
- Graphic File... - to save the project as
a graphics file.
See the Developing Projects - Exporting A Project section for
more details.
- HTML... - to save the project
as HTML.
You can select the type of pictures and other export
parameters. See the Developing Projects - Exporting A Project section for
more details.
- PDF... - to save the project as
as a PDF-file.
See the Developing Projects - Exporting A Project section for
more details.
- ConceptDraw XML...
Saves the
full description of the document in the textual format: ConceptDraw XML,
allowing to handle it in other applications.
See the Developing Projects - Exporting A Project section for
more details.
- Print Preview... -
previewing the page to be printed.
- Print... -
printing the current project page.
See the Developing Projects
- Printing section for more
details.
- Page Setup - setting page
parameters for the printer.
- Send - to send a
project file via the Internet.
- Project Properties
- setting parameters for a current project.
- Open
Recent - if you have already opened some projects, the names of
files which you have opened will appear instead of this item. When
selecting them, the application will try to open them in case they have
not been deleted or renamed.
- Exit - exiting the
ConceptDraw Project application.
The Edit Menu
There are various commands for editing tasks and auxiliary project
objects in this menu:

- Undo
To cancel the last operation. If some
operation has been accomplished, it is assigned to the name of the menu
item. - Redo
Reverses the last
Undo operation. If some operation has been reversed, it
is assigned to the name of the menu
item. - Cut
To copy selected objects or tasks
in the clipboard and remove them from the project
file. - Copy
To copy selected objects or tasks
in the clipboard. - Paste
To insert objects or
tasks from the clipboard into the project. - Paste
Special
Special inserting the contents of the clipboard into
the project. - Find/Replace
Search / replacement
of projects objects in the text. - Select All
To
select all project objects. - Deselect All
To
deselect all objects in the
project. - Duplicate
To create a copy of a
selected object. - Object (only for Windows
)
If an OLE-object is selected, the menu for
editing the OLE-object appears here. See the OLE-objects section for more
details. - Preferences
Setting application
parameters in the Preferences dialogue.
The View menu
In this menu the user specifies how to display the project, whether to
show the toolbars, context dialogs, etc.

The Insert menu
This menu enables selecting tools for drawing objects as well as
inserting (pasting) pictures, hyperlinks and OLE-objects (only a Windows
) into the project.

The Insert menu items
are:
- Picture...
To insert a picture into the
project. - Hyperlink...
To assign a hyperlink to
the selected object. Click this item to call the Hyperlink
dialog. - Object...
Inserting an OLE-object
(only for Windows
).
The Format Menu
The Format menu is intended for changing various
parameters for visualizing tasks and objects (styles of lines, fills, the
text, etc.).

The Format menu items are:
- Line: Changing
line parameters. Calling the Line Properties
dialog.
See the Dialogs - Line
Properties Dialog section for more detailed
information.
- Fill & Shadow: Changing the fill
style and the fill shadow style of objects.
See the Dialogs - Fill & Shadow Dialog section for more
detailed information.
- Double Click
Calls
the Double Click dialogue for assigning the behaviour of
the object for a double click actions.See the Dialogs - Double Click Dialog section for more
detailed information.
- The Hyperlink
menu
The menu for working with hyperlinks.

The menu items are:
The Tasks Menu
The tasks menu is intended for working with projects tasks.

The tasks menu items are:
- Insert New Task -
To insert a new task into the project.
- Delete
Task - To delete the selected task from the
project.
- Move Up - To move the selected task to
one position upward in the project tasks list.
- Move
Down - To move the selected task to one position downward in the
project tasks list.
- Indent - To move the selected
task to one project hierarchy level
upward.
- Outdent - To move the selected task to
one project hierarchy level downward.
- Show
Subtasks - To show subtasks for the selected phase of the
project.
- Hide Subtasks - To hide subtasks for the
selected phase of the project.
- Milestone - To
identify the selected task as a milestone in the
project.
- Deadline - To assign a deadline for the
execution of the selected project task.
- Task
Information - To call the Task Information
dialogue for putting information about a project
task.
- Task Notes - Filling notes for a
task.
- Assign Resources to Task - To call the
Assign Resources to Task dialogue.
The Figure Menu
This menu enables to group objects, change their order of plotting,
make various transformations.

- Send to Back - To move the selected object to the
background (it will be seen under the other
objects).
- Bring to Front - To move the selected
object to the foreground (it will be seen above the other
objects).
- Send to Step Back - To move the object
to a lower position.
- Send to Step Front - To move
the object to a higher position.
- Rotate Left(90ø)
- Rotate the selected object to the left (90ø).
- Rotate
Right(90ø) - Rotate the selected object to the right
(90ø).
- Flip Vertical - Replaces the selected
objects with the vertically mirrored copy
- Flip
Horizontal - Replaces the selected objects with the horizontally
mirrored copy
- Edit Text - To edit the text of a
selected object.
- Group - To group the selected
objects.
- Ungroup - To ungroup the selected
objects.
- Distribute submenu

- Horizontal Spacing
To place the selected
objects so that distances between controlling boxes across were
identical. - Left
To place the selected objects
so that distances between left edges of controlling boxes were
identical. - Centre
To place the selected
objects so that distances between centres of controlling boxes across were
identical. - Right
To place selected objects so
that distances between right edges of controlling boxes across were
identical. - Vertical Spacing
To place selected
objects so that distances between controlling boxes on a vertical were
identical. - Top
To place selected objects so
that distances between top edges of controlling boxes on a vertical were
identical. - Middle
To place selected objects so
that distances between centres controlling boxes on a vertical were
identical. - Bottom
To place selected objects so
that distances between bottom edges of controlling boxes on a vertical
were identical.
Note: The above-mentioned
arrangement types are recommended to be applied only to auxiliary objects.
Items become active, if the number of selected objects makes 3 and
more.
- The Align menu
The Align menu is used for aligning borders of
controlling boxes of two and more selected objects.

The Align menu items are:
- Left - To align to the left border relative to
the primary selected object.
- Centre - To align to
the centre relative to the primary selected
object.
- Right - To align to the right edge
relative to the primary selected object.
- Top - To
align to the top border relative to the primary selected
object.
- Middle - To align to the centre on the
vertical relative to the primary selected
object.
- Bottom - To align to the bottom border
relative relative to the primary selected object.
- The Make Same menu
The menu allows to make some
parameters of the selected objects the same as for the primary selected
object.

- Style - To set up for selected objects the same
style as for the primaty selected object.
- Width -
To set up for selected objects the same width as for the primaty selected
object.
- Height - To set up for selected objects
the same height as for the primaty selected
object.
- Size - To set up for selected objects the
same sizes as for the primaty selected object.
The Tools Menu
The Tools menu contains various tools for working with
project objects.

The Tools menu items are:
The Window menu
The Window menu contains commands on window
management. At the very bottom of the window there is a list where
having selected a window header you can go onto the window required by
you.
See the Main Settings - Manipulating Windows section
for more detailed information.

The Window menu items are:
- New Window - To create the new window with the
same document, as in the active
window.
- Cascade(only for Windows
) - To arrange application windows as a
cascade. - Tile Vertically - To arrange windows on
a vertical.
- Tile Horizontally - To arrange
windows across.
- Close Window - To close an active
window.
- Close All - To close all windows in the
program.
The Help Menu
In the Help menu you can get the help information on
the application. The Help menu consists of the
ConceptDraw Project Help and the About
ConceptDraw Project unit of the information on this
application.
