| I often want a Word document open next to a browser window or a worksheet side-by-side with an |
| The trick is hiding away in Windows itself! I found it by accident and now swear by it. |
| If you right mouse click on the taskbar you can get a series of options including such goodies as: |
| Arrange all the windows so only the title bar shows for each. I think of them arrange like a column |
| Fill the screen with windows, each one stretched across the desktop |
| Fill the screen with windows, each one going from top to bottom -- ie side-by-side |
| A fancy name for minimizing all open windows leaving the desktop and icons visible plus any error |
| messages or other 'modal' windows or dialog boxes. |
| Can't find that menu? You need to click on an 'unused' piece of taskbar not on a button. On a |
| crowded taskbar that means the sliver between the open application buttons and the system icons |
| These options I've found on Windows 2000 and Windows XP - they should be available in Windows |
| The trick is that the right-mouse 'Tile' options work on the visible windows only. Any window |
| that's minimized to the taskbar is ignored. |
| To arrange the windows the way you want: |
| Minimize all unwanted windows, just click on the first of three little buttons on the top right of |
| each window (the other two Maximize and Close the window respectively). Leave only the two or |
| three windows you want to arrange open. |
| Right click on the taskbar and choose one of the 'Tile' options. |
| Presto! Your windows are side-by-side. |
| Are the windows in the wrong places? Simply drag the windows nearer to the correct sides and |
| choose the 'Tile' option again. Windows will move each window to the nearest edge. |
| That's it! You can get on with your work and stop clicking between windows. |
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