Calls up a whole new panel that controls dataset management, colors, peak picking, and other stuff. It's covered in the next section.

Menu where you can find the drawing function like Expand, Previous, etc. These duplicate the function of the buttons with the same names (Figure 3.15, “The Spectrum Window buttons”). They are presented here because this is how you'd access these functions in NVC. As mentioned above, you'd be wise to use the buttons instead. The act of calling up the Spectrum Window Menu changes the location of your nearest cursor, making it hard to define a region you wish to expand.

This is a very handy feature new to NVJ. If you select Edit...Copy Image," you copy the image of the spectrum, axes, and axis labels to your computer's clipboard, and you can handily paste it in to any other suitable document, such as a Word, PowerPoint, or Keynote file. No more exporting/format changing/importing! This is very nice for simple presentations, but is not suitable for publication-quality figures.

This is a powerful tool that lets you change the function of your cursors. The default function is "Crosshairs." "Select" simply empowers you to bring a peak's information in the peak list to the forefront by clicking on it. If you change your cursor to mean "Peak Add," clicking will pick the nearest peak and add it to your current peak list. "Peak Delete" is cursor function from the Dark Side, enabling you to eliminate picked peaks by clicking on them. This is most handy when getting rid of obvious noise. Both the power to create peaks and destroy them can be abused, but DON'T DO IT! Remember that with great power comes great responsibility.

This allows you to open the peak picking menu (more on that below)

These will extract subsets of your spectra for further manipulation and/or analysis. Usually this means taking a 1D slice from a 2d spectrum, or a 2D plane from a 3d spectrum. This feature will be described more in a later section (Spectrum Attributes...Analysis).