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### 5.43 How do I delete menus and menu options?

The simplest way to remove a menu is to set its keymap to ‘`nil`’. For example, to delete the ‘`Words`’ menu (see Modifying pull-down menus), use:

         (define-key global-map [menu-bar words] nil)

Similarly, removing a menu option requires redefining a keymap entry to `nil`. For example, to delete the ‘`Forward word`’ menu option from the ‘`Edit`’ menu (we added it in Modifying pull-down menus), use:

         (define-key global-map [menu-bar edit forward] nil)