Muse Menu Widget

Yesterday I updated Adobe Muse before I began a new project. After I planned the site, stemming all main pages off of the home page I started working on the master. The first thing I did was to drag the horizontal menu widget. For some reason it is only showing one block for the home page. None of the other pages are loading into the menu widget.
I'm a novice at Muse only having designed my portfolio website. I'm sure the answer is an easy solution but I don't have time to continue searching for the answer. Can someone help?
Thanks!

Hi,
I understand. The problem was that when you align the pages one below the other in the Plan view of Muse then the lower level pages become the child pages of their upper level pages.
So, Muse considers these pages as sub-pages and you will only be able to view them if you select "ALL Pages" in the Menu options and then these pages will appear below the main Home page tab.
So If you want to create the menu with all menu items side-by-side, Please make all your pages "Top Level Pages" that mean in the same level of the Home page.
I hope I was able to make you understand how the positioning of pages effects the Menu widget.
Hope this helps
Regards,
Rohit Nair

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