File: use this menu to open, create, save, im-/export or exit a document (see Section 4.5) and to configure automatic backups.

Edit: use this menu to define, modify and delete annotations, tiers and linguistic types (see Chapter 5).

Annotation: use this menu to define, modify, copy, paste and delete annotations (see Chapter 5).

Tier: use this menu to define, modify and delete tiers. You can also create tiers based on annotations (see Chapter 5).

Type: use this menu to define, modify, delete and import linguistic types (see Chapter 5).

Search: use this menu to search for text (see Section 5.10).

View: use this menu to get an overview of the tier dependencies (see Section 5.1), the videos (see Section 4.5.2) and waveforms (see Section 4.5.4) that are active and the shortcut keys.

Options: use this menu to (de)activate the Bulldozer mode (see Section 5.8.9), to choose between annotation mode and synchronization mode and to select a language and video standard.

Window: this menu shows you a list of projects that are currently open and you can switch between these (see Section 4.2.6).

Help: use this menu to read information about ELAN.