User interface - Main menu - Window & Help menus

Hi folks,
Today we have two menu to talk about; Windows menu and Help menu.
 

Windows menu:

You use this menu (Figure 1) to manage the chart windows on you workspace, you can open new window and manage the already opened one from the Window menu.

 
 
Figure 1 - Windows menu

These are the command available in this menu:

New Window:

This command is the same as the File -> New Chart command. You use it to open new chart window for a currency pair.
When you click the New Window command MetaTrader will prompt you with the currency sub-menu (Figure 2) to choose from it the currency you want to open a chart for it.

 
 
Figure 2 - Pairs

Note: The first commands in this sub menu are the common pairs, if you can't find the pair you want to open its chart in these commands click the Forex command and another list will be opened (Figure 3). If you still can't find the pair you want to open its chart you have to go to the Market Watch window and right click it and from the context menu choose Show All command (Figure 4).

 

Figure 3 

 

Figure 4 

Cascade:

This is the first command of the three windows arrangement commands. You use this command to arrange the opened chart windows in stages (Figure 5) where every window is behind the other so can manage them easily.

 

Figure 5Cascade

Tile Horizontally:

Use this command to arrange the windows horizontality (Figure 6) where every window is beside the other.

 

Figure 6 - Tile Horizontally

Tile Vertically:

Use this command to arrange the windows vertically (Figure 7) where every window is below the other.

 

Figure 7 - Tile Vertically

Arrange Icons:

Use this command to arrange the minimized windows one beside the other (Figure 8 & 9).

 

Figure 8 - Arrange Icons

 

Figure 9 - Arrange Icons

Opened chart windows list:

Besides the above commands you will find all the opened chart windows located in lower part of the Window menu (Figure 10) where you can activate the chart you want by clicking it from the menu.

 

Figure 10 - Opend charts

Help menu:

You use this menu (Figure 11) to access the help file of MetaTrader.
There are two commands in this menu:

 

Figure 11 

Help Topics:

Use this command to open the MetaTrader User guide. You can perform the same action by hit F1 hotkey.

Note: You can access the MetaTrader user guide from the Standard toolbar; there you will find the Help button (Figure 12). The difference here is that the Help button on the Standard toolbar is smarter. When you click the Help button the mouse cursor convert to question mark and you can click on any part of the MetaTrader to go to its topic in the MetaTrader user guide.

 

Figure 12 - Help buuton

About...:

Click this command and MetaTrader will open the About window (Figure 13) where you can find information about the company created the MetaTrader version you have with its contact details and the most important piece of date you can find here is the version of the terminal.

 

Figure 13 - About 

 

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