The Main Menu's File Menu can be opened either by means of the mouse or simultaneously pressing the ALT + F keys on the keyboard.

The Edit Menu is context sensitive. That is, its items/commands are enabled or disabled depending on which control in the Main Window has the input focus. For information on which Main Window control supports which commands/functions, please refer to the descriptions of the File Name Combo Box, Function Names List View, and Info Memo, on this page.

The Edit Menu can be opened either by means of the mouse or the ALT + E key combination, on the keyboard.

The application initializes the drop-down list with the path and name of the ShlWAPI.dll that is normally loaded by other modules (typically, C:\Windows\system32\SHLWAPI.dll), during application startup. Subsequently, all valid file names that point to an exisiting file, are also added to the drop-down list. However, the application does not verify that the subsequently added file names are those of Portable Executable (PE), dynamic link libraries, nor are the contents of the drop-down list preserved across application restarts (i.e. the drop-down list is not persistent).

As the File Name Combo Box supports the standard behaviour for controls of this type, it is possible to select, cut, copy, paste, and delete, the entire, or portions of the text, in its edit field. Consequently, the corresponding menu items (i.e. Select/Clear Selection, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete) in the Edit Menu are activated/enabled whenever it receives the input focus and executing the respective operation/action is possible.

The check marks can be added to or removed from the function names either individually or collectively:

In order to make allowances for new functions, in future ShlWAPi.dll versions, we have also provided three menu items with which you can append function names to the end of the hard-coded list. These being the Add ANSI Function Name, Add WCHAR Function Name, and Add Both menu items in the Main Menu's Edit Menu. The first two will add a single function name, ending with an uppercase a ("A") and w ("W") respectively. The third (Add Both), simply combines the functionality of the former two (i.e. that of Add ANSI Function Name and Add WCHAR Function Name).

As it is highly unlikely that Microsoft will name new ShlWAPI.dll functions "NewFunctionName01A" and/or "NewFunctionName01W ", the appended function names will have to be modified. This is achieved through in-place editing.

In-place editing of an item caption can be initiated either by keeping the left mouse button pressed slightly longer than would be necessary to merely select the item or by selecting the item and subsequently selecting/clicking Rename Function in the Edit Menu.

Although, in-place editing can be performed on all items, the application prevents hard-coded items from being renamed and therefore the Cut, Paste, Delete, Undo, and Rename Function menu items in the Edit Menu are disabled/deactivated when trying to rename one of the predefined function names.

However, the Copy menu item remains enabled, irrespective of whether an item is being edited or not. While a caption is undergoing in-place editing it copies the selected/highlighted text (see Fig. 9, above). Otherwise, it copies the captions of the selected items. The latter of these, two features makes it very easy to export all or only a subset of the function names as multi-line text. as all that this requires is, to select the desired items and click Copy in the Edit Menu. Copying all item captions in the Function Names List View is even simpler, it suffices to press CTRL + A, followed by CTRL + C. .