File: use this menu to open, create, save, im-/export or exit a document (see the section called “Screen display and navigation through a document”) and to configure automatic backups.

Edit: use this menu to define, modify and delete annotations, tiers and tier types (see Annotations).

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

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

Type: use this menu to define, modify, delete and import tier types (see Annotations).

Search: use this menu to search for text (see the section called “Tokenize a tier”).

View: use this menu to get an overview of the tier dependencies (see the section called “Basic Information: Annotations, tiers and tier types”), the videos (see the section called “The Video Viewer”) and waveforms (see the section called “The Waveform Viewer”) that are active and the shortcut keys.

Options: use this menu to (de)activate the Bulldozer mode (see the section called “Activating and deactivating the Bulldozer mode or Shift mode”), 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 the section called “Switching between multiple files”).

Help: use this menu to read information about ELAN.