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Creating a submenu with existing buttons

You can easily move existing buttons from one menu to a new submenu. As your project becomes more complex, you may find that creating submenus is a good way to organize your content.

To create a submenu from existing buttons:

Step 1

Open the menu that contains the buttons you want to move.

Step 2

Select one or more buttons that you want to move to a submenu.

Select buttons by clicking them once. To select more than one button, hold down the Shift key as you click.

Step 3

Choose Project > “New Menu from Selection.”

The selected buttons disappear from the current menu, and a new My Submenu button, which links to the newly created submenu, appears. This new button has the same style as the default buttons that come with the theme you are using, but you can change its appearance if you want.

Step 4

Click the new submenu button once to highlight the text, and type a new name if necessary.

An in-place control (shown below) appears below the button. Use its controls to select a new typeface, font style, and font size from the pop-up menus if you want.

Image of menu title selected with in-place editor showing below it

To access the new submenu, double-click the new button. The new submenu uses the Extras menu template for your theme, if there is one. (If there isn’t, a different template from the theme is applied.) You can now edit the menu just as you would any other menu, choosing a new theme if necessary, changing the appearance of buttons, and so on.

Related Topics

Copying or moving buttons to other menus

Adding menus to an iDVD project

Changing the appearance of buttons

Changing themes in a project

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