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The region of a window or screen where drop down menus are displayed. The menu bar allows for easy access of an application's menus and commands.

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When auto-hiding the [top] MacOS menubar can that area be used by applications?

I have "Automatically hide and show the menu bar on desktop" enabled: The Menu Bar is hidden - but the newly opened up desktop area at the top of the screen (as shown in Red rectangle below) is not t …
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"Move focus to the menu bar" shortcut does not work in Sonoma?

Ever since upgrading to Sonoma I have not been able to access the Menu bar. I did change the shortcut long ago - and it had been working through various versions of macOS over the past decade. Here i …
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Dropdown menu navigation by the keyboard

After getting to the menu bar (which in OS/X is already a hassle) we can use the first letter to access the submenu - ‘w’ for ‘Window’ in the screenshot below: Subsequently the ‘b’ was typed to acces …
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Can I move the top menu bar?

As mentioned in other answers the menu bar can unfortunately not be moved. However - as of El Capitan - it is possible to hide it! It is in General | Appearance | Automatically hide and show the men …
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Use keyboard for accessing Emacs Menu

I am using the brew install emacs version of gui-based emacs. After using the mac shortcut to access the Menu bar, I am able to use the mnemonic to access the individual top level menu items: e.g …
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Use keyboard for accessing Emacs Menu

I found a good workaround in emacs (beta) forum: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3911/access-menu-bar-using-keyboard-on-mac-os-x (define-key global-map (kbd "C-<f2>") (lambda () (int …
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Top menubar has disappeared across all apps - not just full screen

I believe that I typed some keyboard combination in a fullscreen app to hide the top menu bar. Methinks it were Adobe Reader, but uncertain at this point Actually even that did not do what was inten …
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The shortcut to access the Menubar via the Keyboard does not work in Excel or PowerPoint for...

It seems that both Excel and PowerPoint have already mapped the CMD' to something else. I changed the mapping to Shift-CMD-SPACE and that works.
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Volume control not shown in menu bar even though enabled in Preferences

The volume control is enabled in Settings | Sound Effects but it is not actually showing ? Is there some other setting required?
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"Move focus to the menu bar" shortcut does not work in Sonoma?

It appears that the problems are: Moving focus to the menubar no longer unhides the menubar. I had Autohide set to true and it was working fine in earlier versions of the O/S Clicking the keystroke …
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Top menubar has disappeared across all apps - not just full screen

The problem was resolved by a highly technical approach: rebooting ..
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Volume control not shown in menu bar even though enabled in Preferences

I tried the non scientific method: disabling and re-enabling the show volume in menu bar .. and that worked.
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The shortcut to access the Menubar via the Keyboard does not work in Excel or PowerPoint for...

I have mapped the Move Focus to the menu bar to CMD - '. This works for example, on Chrome. It also happens to work in Word: you can see the Apple icon is activated, so then I can use mnemonics (fir …
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"Move focus to the menubar" shortcut is not working on Sonoma?

I have tried several different keyboard combos for this feature [which worked on prior versions of macOS] - but none work on sonoma Here is one of the attempted combinations: CMD-;. I also had trie …
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