Positioning A Menu Item to the Right

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I want to introduce a special "Admin" menu item into my WinForms app. It'll
normally be hidden but activated by a special key-sequence. To make it more
visible to a user (ex. while talking with a support person on the phone) I
thought of shifting it several centimetres to the right of the "Help" menu
item.

The only way I could think to do this was to add a special spacer menu item
in between Help and Admin. It works but I'm wondering if there's a simpler,
better way to do this.
 
You have probably hit on the most straightforward solution, however even with
the blank menu disabled, it will still be highlighted as the mouse is dragged
over it.

Another (although much more involved) solution might be to use a user
interface component library. iirc SharpUI allows you to have multiple
menubars, so you could have the main menu bar on the left with the normal
menus, and another to the right with your Admin menu.
 
Chris,

Yes, I noticed that "ghost menu item" too. Thank you for your other
suggestion. But considering that this "Admin" menu option will be used once
in a blue moon, I think I'll just use it as is.

Thank you again for responding.
 
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