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<h1>Window Menu actions</h1>
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<th id="name">Name</th>
<th id="function">Function</th>
<th id="keyboard">Keyboard Shortcut</th>
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<td class="menu_name" headers="name">New Window</td>
<td headers="function">Opens a new Workbench window</td>
<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<td class="menu_name" headers="name">New Editor</td>
<td headers="function">Opens a new copy of the active editor</td>
<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<td class="menu_name" headers="name">Open Perspective
(submenu)</td>
<td headers="function">Opens a new perspective (The contents
and order of entries in the submenu are dependent on the current
perspective. The <strong>Other...</strong> entry allows you to
open any perspective.)
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<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<td class="menu_name" headers="name">Show View (submenu)</td>
<td headers="function">Displays a view in the current
perspective (The contents and order of entries in the submenu are
dependent on the current perspective. The <strong>Other...</strong>
entry allows you to open any view.)
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<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<td class="menu_name" headers="name">Customize Perspective...</td>
<td headers="function">Alters the visibility of various
elements of the current perspective</td>
<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<td class="menu_name" headers="name">Save Perspective As...</td>
<td headers="function">Saves the current perspective under a
new name (It can then be accessed through the <strong>Open
Perspective &gt; Other...</strong> dialog.)
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<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<td class="menu_name" headers="name">Reset Perspective</td>
<td headers="function">Removes any customizations created by <strong>Customize
Perspective...</strong>
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<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<td class="menu_name" headers="name">Close Perspective</td>
<td headers="function">Closes the active perspective</td>
<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<td class="menu_name" headers="name">Close All Perspectives</td>
<td headers="function">Closes all the open perspectives, which
also closes all the Editors and Views</td>
<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<td rowspan="13" class="menu_name" headers="name">Navigation</td>
<td headers="function">Navigates between views, perspectives,
and editors in the following ways:
<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<dt>Show System Menu</dt>
<dd>Displays the menu that is used for closing the current
view or editor</dd>
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<td headers="keyboard">Alt+(hyphen)</td>
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<dt>Show View Menu</dt>
<dd>Displays the drop-down menu accessible from the triangle
button in the current view's toolbar</dd>
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<td headers="keyboard">Ctrl-F10</td>
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<td headers="function">
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<dt>Maximize Active View or Editor</dt>
<dd>Maximizes the current view or editor to fill the window</dd>
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<td headers="keyboard">Ctrl+M</td>
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<dt>Minimize Active View or Editor</dt>
<dd>Minimizes the current view or editor down to an icon on
the side of the window</dd>
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<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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<dt>Activate Editor</dt>
<dd>Switches from the current view to the current editor</dd>
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<td headers="keyboard">F12</td>
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<dt>Next Editor</dt>
<dd>Activates the most-recently-used editor (If held down,
displays the list of open editors, ordered by time.)</dd>
</dl>
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<td headers="keyboard">Ctrl+F6</td>
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<dt>Previous Editor</dt>
<dd>Activates least-recently-used editor (If held down,
displays the list of open editors, ordered by time.)</dd>
</dl>
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<td headers="keyboard">Ctrl+Shift+F6</td>
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<dt>Switch to Editor...</dt>
<dd>Displays a dialog that allows multiple editors to be
saved or closed</dd>
</dl>
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<td headers="keyboard">Ctrl+Shift+E</td>
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<dt>Next View</dt>
<dd>Activates the most-recently-used view (If held down,
displays the list of open views, ordered by time.)</dd>
</dl>
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<td headers="keyboard">Ctrl+F7</td>
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<dt>Previous View</dt>
<dd>Activates least-recently-used view (If held down,
displays the list of open views, ordered by time.)</dd>
</dl>
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<td headers="keyboard">Ctrl+Shift+F7</td>
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<dt>Next Perspective</dt>
<dd>Activates the most-recently-used perspective (If held
down, displays the list of open perspectives, ordered by time.)</dd>
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<td headers="keyboard">Ctrl+F8</td>
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<dt>Previous Perspective</dt>
<dd>Activates least-recently-used perspective (If held down,
displays the list of open perspective, ordered by time.)</dd>
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<td headers="keyboard">Ctrl+Shift+F8</td>
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<td class="menu_name" headers="name">Preferences</td>
<td headers="function">Opens the Preferences dialog, where
workspace-wide preferences can be set (The <a
href="cdt_u_c_pref.htm">C/C++ Page Preference Window</a> section
documents the C/C++-specific preferences.)
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<td headers="keyboard">&nbsp;</td>
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