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# About the Menubar Timer

The menubar timer is an easy way to start and pause timed slips. Whenever Billings Pro is open, the menubar timer will appear at the right side of the Mac OS X menu bar. Create a new timed slip and click the Play button to start timing it—the menubar timer will turn red to indicate that time is being tracked. Clicking the Pause button stops the timer. You can click anywhere else in the menubar timer to open a menu that lets you switch between and create new timed slips.

The menubar timer shows the recorded time for the selected slip, and the menu itself shows details about the slip, including the slip's project and all active timed slips organized by project.

The following commands are available in the menubar timer menu:

- Start starts the timer for the selected slip
- Pause stops the timer for the selected slip
- New Timed Slip makes a new, unlinked timed slip
- Edit Slip opens the selected slip's window to edit its details
- Link to Project opens a sheet that lets you link the selected slip to a project
- Show Timers Window displays the Timers window

When you create a new timed slip, the slip is available for timing in both the menubar timer and the Timers window. You can also instantly start a new timed slip by option-clicking the play-pause button in the menubar timer. You may find this useful if you receive a phone call and want to start timing it right away, for instance.

## See also

About the Timers Window

Starting a timer