function formatMenu() {
	if (document.getElementById('contentMenu') ) {
		if (document.getElementById('essayTitle')) {
			essayTitleRaw = "" + document.getElementById('essayTitle').innerText;
			// remove Spaces
			essayName = "menuItem";
			stLength = essayTitleRaw.length;
			essayNamePlus = "";
			for (n = 0; n < stLength ;n++) {
				char = essayTitleRaw.substring(n,n+1);
				if (char != " " && char != "'" && char != "?" && char != "/" && char != "!" && char != "&" && char != "," && char != "(" && char != ")" && char !="[" && char != "]") {
					essayName = essayName + char;
				}
				char = "";
			}
			// find menu item,format it and flag it
			if (document.subMenu.document.getElementById(essayName)) {
				document.subMenu.document.getElementById(essayName).selected = "yes";
				document.subMenu.document.getElementById(essayName).className = "menuItem selected";
				document.subMenu.document.getElementById('selectedElementId').value = essayName;
			}
		}
	}
}