Question Menu Merging MDI Winforms

sputnik75043

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In my MDI form, I have a file menu, but it only has New/Preferences/Exit.
I have 2 separate child forms that can be opened and saved, so their save is in a different way.

I pretty much have a small bit of understanding on how to insert (merge) an entire menu (section? for lack of better word -File/View/Edit, etc.) from the child to the MDI Parent, but what I'd like to do is to have a File/Save menu on each child and ONLY merge the SAVE menu from each into the MDI parent's File menu.

Is this possible?
If so, how (nothting I've done so far makes it work)?
 
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In child menu you set MergeAction for each menu item. File item and its subitems to keep in child you set to MatchOnly, the Save item you set to Replace.
 
That works, thanks - - one more thing, though.
I set the File menu item to match only, but it shows on both the MDI Parent and the MDI child.

Is there a way to make it NOT show on the child form (other than programmatically)?
 
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In the case the child File item is the only item of that branch that remains after merge you can just set Visible to False in designer for this item, it need never be visible.
 
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