Color Code My Menu Items or Make them Invisible (Cool Easter Egg #4)?

I have learned some new things while writing this book, and I’ve been reminded of some long-forgotten tips. Here’s another one that involves organizing the menus to suit your preferences: you can color code menu items and make them visible or invisible in the menus. Just go to Edit > Menus, and you’ll be presented with a dialog that lists all of the menus (including application menus, context menus, and panel menus) and menu items in InDesign. Open the Category pop-up menu to select either Application Menus or Context & Panel Menus. To see the items within each menu listed, click on the arrow to the left of the menu name. Now you can click on the little eye icon to the right of a menu item to turn its visibility off, and click on that same space to turn it back on. You can color code an item by clicking on None (or the name of a color, if one has already been chosen) to enable a pop-up menu, and then selecting whichever color you choose. In the example above, I made “Open” green, and “Close” red. You can save your choices within a new workspace for future use. Don’t you just love customization? And rhetorical questions?