# Menu Bar
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The menu bar in IDA gives you access to whole range of commands. **All menus are always available, but some adapt their content based on your current view and your cursor position**.
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## Context-Independent Menus
These menus provide the same options regardless of which view you're working in:
* [File](https://docs.hex-rays.com/user-guide/user-interface/menu-bar/common-actions): Handles opening and loading binaries, importing/exporting data, and producing output files.
* [View](https://docs.hex-rays.com/user-guide/user-interface/menu-bar/common-actions-1): Provides fast access and options to show and organize views, graphs, and toolbars.
* [Debugger](https://docs.hex-rays.com/user-guide/user-interface/menu-bar/common-actions-3): Provides controls for running, stepping through, and analyzing programs in real-time.
* [Lumina](https://docs.hex-rays.com/user-guide/user-interface/menu-bar/common-actions-4): Connects to Private or Public Lumina service to share and retrieve function metadata across different binaries.
* [Options](https://docs.hex-rays.com/user-guide/user-interface/menu-bar/common-actions-5): Configures IDA's appearance, fonts, colors, disassembly preferences, and more.
* [Windows](https://docs.hex-rays.com/user-guide/user-interface/menu-bar/common-actions-6): Opens various tool windows and manages desktops.
* [Help](https://docs.hex-rays.com/user-guide/user-interface/menu-bar/common-actions-7): Your gateway to various help resources and license manager.
## View-Dependent Menus
The following top-level menus (1) **dynamically change their content based on your active view** (2) and cursor location.
* **Edit** - Provides context-sensitive editing operations like patching bytes, modifying instructions, renaming symbols, and changing data types.
* **Jump** - Navigates to addresses, functions, cross-references, and other locations within the binary.
* **Search** - Search for strings, patterns, instructions, constants, and references in the disassembly.
| Icon | Current View | Context-Sensitive Menu Actions |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|  | Disassembly/IDA View | • Edit
• Jump
• Search
|
|  | Hex View | • Edit
• Jump
• Search
|
|  | Pseudocode | • Edit
• Jump
• Search
|
|  | Local Types | • Edit
• Jump
• Search
|
|  | Functions | • Edit
• Jump
• Search
|