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# Menus and toolbar

## Menubar

The menu bar, located at the top of the `GNOME Color Browser` window, contains the following menus:

File

  This menu contains the following commands:

  - New: this command allows you to create a new empty palette (see the Section called Creating new palettes) or a new view of an existing palette in a different window.

  - Open (F3): this command opens an existing palette, prompting you to select a file containing this palette.

  - Save palette (Ctrl-S): saves current palette. Note that system palette can not be changed by a user, so this command has no effect in the system palette view. It also has no effect in search documents.

  - Save palette as: saves the current palette under a new name. Has no effect in search documents.

  - Revert: discard the changes you made to the current document, restoring the palette to the original state.

  - Close (Ctrl-W): allows you to close the current view or all views of the current document.

  - Exit (Ctrl-Q): exits the program.

Edit

  This menu contains the following commands:

  - Copy (Ctrl-C): copies the currently selected color(s) to the clipboard

  - Paste (Ctrl-V): pastes the contents of the clipboard into current document.

  - Insert color: creates a new edit sub-window allowing you to define a new color and add it to the current document.

  - Remove selected colors: remove selected colors from the palette.

  - Edit selected colors: this command launches a new sub-window in which you can change the properties of selected colors (see the Section called Editing a color).

  - Document/View properties: launches Properties dialog

  - Preferences : launches Preferences dialog

Help

  This menu contains:

  - Manual: shows this manual.

  - About: shows basic information about `GNOME Color Browser`, such as the author's name and the application version number.

## Toolbar

The toolbar is located under the menubar and contains the following buttons:

- Exit: exits the program.

- Open: opens an existing palette, prompting you to select a file containing this palette

- Close: closes the current view sub-window.

- Grab: allows you to select a color anywhere on the screen for matching (see the Section called Search for detailed description).

- About: shows basic information about `GNOME Color Browser`, such as the author's name and the application version number.

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