A User's Guide to Evolution
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# Menu Reference

`Evolution`'s menus may not hold the secret to happiness, they do hold every ability that `Evolution` has. This section will serve as a reference for all those menus, and the capabilites that they offer you.

In addition, the editor tools for messages, appointments, and contacts all have menu bars of their own. From left to right, the menus available to you when you are reading mail are: File, Edit, View, Settings, Message, Folderand Help.

Menus in `Evolution` are context-sensitive, which means that they vary depending on what you're doing. If you're reading your mail, you'll have mail-related menus; for your calendar, you'll have calendar-related menu items. Some menus, of course, like Help and File don't much, if at all, because they have more universal functions. But you'd never mark an address card as "read," or set the recurrence for an email message you've recieved. depending on whether you're looking at mail, contacts, or calendar information.

# Menus that are the same everywhere

The File and Help menus in the main `Evolution` window do not change, because they refer to universal items. Other menus have contents that change depending on context.

## File Menu

New... Submenu

  - Folder — Create a new folder. See the section called The Folder Bar in the chapter called The Main Window: Evolution Basics for more information about folders.

  - Shortcut — Create a new Shortcut in the Shortcut Bar.

  - Mail Message — Compose a new mail message. Covered in the section called Writing and Sending Mail in the chapter called Evolution Mail.

  - Appointment — Enter a new appointment in your calendar. See the section called Creating events in the chapter called The Evolution Calendar for more information.

  - Task — Enter a new to-do item in your taskpad. Covered in the section called The Task Pad in the chapter called The Evolution Calendar.

Go to Folder

  View the items in a particular folder.

Create New Folder

  This item doesn't belong here any more.

Print Message

  Print the current message.

Exit

  Quit using `Evolution`.

## The Help Menu

Help Index

  Displays the table of contents for this document.

Getting Started

  A quick look around, and a summary of the things `Evolution` can do for you.

Using the Mailer

  An in-depth tour of `Evolution` Mail.

Using the Calendar

  A step-by-step guide to using the Calendar.

Using the Contact Manager

  Find your way around the Contact Manager.

Submit Bug Report

  If you don't report them, they can't fix them. Select this item to let the developers know what's wrong.

About Evolution

  Displays a window with information about the application and its authors. This has the same information as the appendix called Authors.

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