Menu Dialog

Use the Menu Dialog to enter lists of foods that you can add to the log in a single operation.

 

The menu dialog can be shown in several ways:

• By clicking on the 'New Menu' button in the Menu Finder panel.
• By selecting food lines from the Food View and using the right click menu option 'Make Menu from selected..."
• By right clicking on a menu in the Menu Finder panel and selecting the menu option 'Edit Menu..."

Actions Available on this screen

Key	Toolbar button	Action
Enter		Edit the currently selected cell in the speadsheet
Arrow Keys		Move around the spreadsheet (use with Shift to multi-select lines)
Insert		Insert a new line at the current position
Delete		Delete the selected line(s)
Ctrl X		Cut the currently selected line(s) to the clipboard
Ctrl C		Copy the currently selected line(s) to the clipboard
Ctrl V		Paste lines from the clipboard to the current position
Ctrl A		Select all the lines
Ctrl E		Edit/view the currently selected food definition
Esc		Cancel editing and revert to previous value (only valid while editing a cell)
		Expand ingredients, if the selected line is a recipe (ie it has ingredients) then replace the food with the individual ingredients.

The table works in the same way as the main food view, you can select, cut, copy and paste foods.

An easy way to create a menu from existing foods in your food log is to multi-select the lines then use the right click menu option 'Make Menu from Selected...' to show this dialog with the selected lines included.

Once a menu has been created you can double click on it in the Menu Finder panel to add it to your log.