Menu Reference - Audacity Manual

# Menu Reference

### From Audacity Manual

Every command in Audacity should appear in one of the menus, and is documented on these pages:

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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