# Menu Reference

### From Audacity Manual

Many commands in Audacity appear in one of the menus and are documented on the following pages.

Other functions can be found in Toolbars or run by using the appropriate keyboard shortcut listed in Keyboard Shortcut Reference. Shortcuts can be changed or added in Keyboard Preferences.

Menu | What you'll find there
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Audacity (Mac Only) | About Audacity, Preferences, System Services, Show and Hide Audacity and other applications, and Quit.
File | Working with Audacity project files and other audio files.
Edit | Altering the audio in your project.
View | Changing how Audacity and your project appear on screen.
Transport | Control recording and playback.
Tracks | Adding, aligning and labeling audio tracks.
Generate | Creating new audio in your project. Audio generating plug-ins will also appear here.
Effect | Processing the audio in your project. External Effects plug-ins will also appear in this menu.
Analyze | Analyzing the audio in your project. External plug-ins that act on audio but don't produce audio output will appear here, as well as tools like Silence Finder and spectrograms.
Window (Mac Only) | Minimize and zoom windows, choose the project window to bring to the front.
Help | Short and detailed Help documents; license, build and audio device information.

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