Effects are all grayed out--why?

[mickdonedee]

Thanks WC for your replies. I will follow your advice re the tutorials.

[cyrano]

Top Tip: scroll up on the webpage from the link above (or click this link http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/#Guide ... ect_Window) and you will see an image of an Audacity project - you can click on places in this image to drill down and explore aspects of Audacity functionality.

I've been browsing the manual a lot lately and hadn't discovered that one yet. Good old image maps...

Thanks for the tip!

[waxcylinder]

I've been browsing the manual a lot lately and hadn't discovered that one yet. Good old image maps...

Thanks for the tip!

You have to thank Bill Wharrie for that - it's known internally among Audacity Team as "Bill's-amazing-image-map"
As a documenter I find myself using that main page image map an awful lot - a very useful tool.

The developers were totally amazed when I showed it to the at our AU14 Audacity Unconference last summer.

There are a few other image maps scattered around in odd places - this one for example: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/to ... rview.html

You can normally see if a page has image maps as when you hover over the images the cursor changes to the pointing finger hand. For images without image maps we kill the links and all you get is hover text and the arrow cursor.

WC