# Displaying menus

Ordinarily, it’s a good idea to keep the Reader menus visible so that they are available as you work. It is possible to hide them, using the View > Menu Bar command. However, the only way to display and use them again is by pressing F9/Shift+Command+M (Press F9 on Linux).

Reader also has numerous context-sensitive menus. These menus appear when you right-click/Control-click an element in the work area or PDF that has such a menu associated with it. A context menu displays commands that relate to the item or area that you clicked. For example, when you right-click/Control-click the toolbar area, that context menu displays the same commands as the View > Toolbars menu.

Note: The Reader menu bar appears only if Reader is open as a stand-alone application. If Reader is open within the browser, only the browser application menu appears at the top of the window. However, context menus are available in both cases.