Is there a way I can hide a certain part of the application menu without disabling its shortcuts?

e.g. Normal menu is:

File | Edit | Format | Help

However, I wanna hide 'file' so it looks like

Edit | Format | Help

But I still wanna be able to do Ctrl+O and trigger the open dialog.


It's a bit complicated to explain why I wanna do this, but I'm basically exploiting a feature of the menu shortcuts. I need to have shortcuts in a menu that doesn't actually show up.

It's because menu shortcuts handle repeated 'beats' of a keypress according to control panel's specifications (e.g. you hold the D button and get D..(waits)...DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD). Basically, it uses the windows repeat rate and delay.

So is there a way?