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# Customize the Open menu

You can add, remove, or rearrange Open menu items, you can add frequently used Applications or AppleScript folders, and you can choose how to display the contents of folders.

## To customize the Open menu:

Open the Application Wizard pane in System Preferences, click Menus, and click the Customize Menus button. In the dialog that appears, click Open.

- To add an item to the Open menu, click the Add (+) button at the bottom of the list and choose the new item.

- To add a folder to the Open menu, click the Add button and choose Folder. Browse and select the new folder and click Add. You can also add folders by dragging them from the Finder to the list.

- To change a folder’s name in the Open menu (in case you have added more folders with the same name for example), double-click it in the list, type the new name, and press Return.

- To rearrange items in the Open menu, drag them in the list.

- To remove one or more items from the Open menu, select them in the list and click the Remove (-) button at the bottom of the list or press the Delete key.

  To select items that are next to each other (contiguous) in the list, press the Shift key and then click the first and last item; to select items that are not next to each other in the list, press the Command key and then click each item.

- To replace a folder that you have added to the Open menu, select the folder in the list and choose Change Folder from the Action pop-up menu (looks like a gear). Browse and select the new folder and click Change.

- By default, Application Wizard lists the applications and AppleScripts contained in each Open menu folder in a single non-hierarchical menu. To view folders as hierarchical menus, select the ”Make folder menus hierarchical” checkbox.

- By default, Application Wizard synchronizes folder menus and the System Preferences menu every time you show them. To speed up the display of menus, select the ”Turn automatic synchronization off” checkbox.

  When automatic synchronization is turned off, Application Wizard builds menus just the first time you show them and then remembers them. To manually synchronize a folder menu (after installing a new application for example) or the System Preferences menu, hold down the Control key and display the folder menu.