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title: "Use the Formula Bar Menu"
slug: "use-the-formula-bar-menu"
description: "This menu beside the formula bar provides options to help you understand, manage and optimize your Metrics’ formulas in Pigment."
updated: 2026-08-05T09:36:00Z
published: 2026-08-05T09:36:00Z
canonical: "kb.pigment.com/use-the-formula-bar-menu"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Use the Formula Bar Menu

The menu beside the formula bar provides options to help you understand, manage and optimize your Metrics’ formulas.

Access the menu by selecting the three dots to the right of the formula bar. If the formula bar is not visible, select the ***⨍*** button in the top toolbar.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/e47cfe35-dc28-40c7-a083-6cf003073d8e/Images/Documentation/image(368).png)

## Prettify formula

The article [How to make your formulas easier to understand](/v1/docs/how-to-make-your-formulas-easier-to-understand) provides tips on how to indent, comment and use tabs to make formulas easy to scan. Alternatively, you can select **Prettify** to implement several tips all at once, or use its shortcut: cmd/ctrl + ..

## Add formula for Scenarios

Use this option to manage which Scenarios should use the formula displayed in the formula bar and which should not.

## Open in Formula Playground

To build on the current formula, try ideas first in the [Formula Playground](/v1/docs/analyze-optimize-formulas-formula-playground).

## Compare in Formula Playground

Selecting this opens the Formula Playground in [Comparison Mode](/v1/docs/analyze-optimize-formulas-formula-playground#comparison-mode), with your formula pre-loaded.

## Show performance improvement hints

Turn this on to have performance improvement hints appear beside the ***⨍*** symbol and by each line of the formula. For more information, see [Performance Improvement Hints](/v1/docs/performance-hints).

## Convert formula to values

Select this to remove the current formula and convert cell results into static values. For more information, see [Model with Lists](/v1/docs/model-lists#converting-formula-to-values).

## Explain the formula

Select this to see context provided by Pigment AI. For more information, see [Other Pigment AI features](/v1/docs/other-pigment-ai-features#explain-the-formula).