>>look what is under the edit pad --- you find copy and paste
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>I understand that but I have a large existing applicaion with a large menu - do I have to delete that in order to crate the new menu?

Actually no, you can copy the relevant bits of code from the new little .spr and paste it into the big .spr that you have in the app. Don't ask me the details, I'm running my menus from metadata since 1989 and have used .spr menus only on some jobs... last such one being around 2004 or so.