# Main window
On the top you see common Windows interface items -- menu bar and toolbar.
Left side of the window is occupied by the ***soundtrack panel***. It displays a waveform of the current soundtrack, and on top of it labels that correspond to the synchronized words.
Right side of the window contains the ***shortcut bar***. It contains shortcuts to most frequently used commands. Shortcut bar changes with context -- if you do not need it any more you may close (to display it again use **Shortcut bar** command from **View** menu). To leave the shortcut bar visible, but to disable animations, select **Preferences** from **File** menu and uncheck **Animate shortcut bar** option.
The main area of the screen is taken by the lyrics editor. It consists of two parts -- preview window on the top (you may close is with **Preview** toolbar button ) and lyrics area below.
***Preview window*** displays the CD+G preview of the current part of the lyrics -- this is how your song will look on the TV screen. If your computer is slow, rendering preview make take a long time and your work will be uncomfortable. To avoid this either hide the preview window or disable automatic updates (clicking **Update** button will render the preview at the current cursor position).
***Lyrics area*** allows to edit the lyrics text, insert CD+G events, and adjust synchronization of the words.