Adobe CS6 Basic Menu Options

By Jennifer Smith, Christopher Smith, and Fred Gerantabee

Part of the Adobe CS6 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Adobe CS6 gives you menu options to open, close, and save your files. CS6 menu options also enable you to import and export documents and undo changes, in addition to other basic commands. This table shows common Adobe CS6 options and what they do:

Option	What You Can Do with It
New	Create a new document in the native file format.
Open	Open a dialog box where you can choose a (supported) file on your hard drive or a disk to open.
Close	Close the current document; if you have unsaved changes, you're prompted to save those changes first.
Save	Save the changes you've made to the current document.
Save As	Save a new copy of the current document.
Place or Import	Import a file, such as an image file or a sound file, into the current document.
Export	Export the current data to a specified file format. You can sometimes select several different kinds of file formats for saving the current data.
Copy	Copy the selected data to the computer's Clipboard.
Paste	Paste the data from the Clipboard into the current document.
Undo	Undo the most recent operation you did in the program.
Redo	Repeat the steps you applied the Undo command to.
Zoom In	Magnify the document so that you can view and edit the contents closely.
Zoom Out	Scale the view smaller so that you can see more of the document at a time.
Help	Open the Help documentation for the current program.