{"id":8615,"date":"2016-10-27T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2016-10-15T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T21:34:32","slug":"messing-with-your-work-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8615","title":{"rendered":"Messing with Your Work Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The interface for Microsoft Word has changed over the years. Back when Word was a text mode program (believe it or not), it had a clunky, half-screen interface that really got in the way. Then when Word became a Windows program, it featured its documents as subwindows in a single window. Today, Word documents are each held in their own window, but how do those windows sit on the desktop?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI prefer to work with Word floating in a window that isn&#8217;t full screen, as shown in Figure 1. That way I can see other items on the screen, including other windows. In fact, I generally keep my outline open in a second window, though the two windows overlap and aren&#8217;t sitting side-by-side.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8616\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8616\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1027-figure1.png\" alt=\"Figure 1. The way I prefer to use Word, the window floating in the middle of the desktop.\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1027-figure1.png 550w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1027-figure1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. The way I prefer to use Word, the window floating in the middle of the desktop.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My son likes to maximize his Word window; it always fills the screen. I suppose that&#8217;s okay because he doesn&#8217;t work on multiple documents at once. Because I do, I prefer to flip between windows, either by using the Alt+Tab keyboard shortcut or by clicking on a window&#8217;s taskbar button.<\/p>\n<p>You can quickly re-arrange the window, providing you know some keyboard shortcuts. Where <em>Win<\/em> is the Windows key on your keyboard:<\/p>\n<p>Win+Up maximizes the current window.<\/p>\n<p>Win+Left moves a window in the center of the screen to fill the left half of the desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Win+Right moves a window in the center of the screen to fill the right half of the desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Win+Down minimizes a window to a button on the taskbar.<\/p>\n<p>You can cycle through some of these shortcut keyss to move a window hither and thither. For example, if the window is filling the left half of the desktop, press Win+Right to move it back to the center position. Or if the window is maximized, press Win+Down to return it to the center of the desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Within Word, you can arrange two documents: Click the View tab and in the Window group click the Arrange All button. The problem there is that the windows are stacked one atop the other &mdash; full-screen, horizontally. I prefer them to be stacked vertically, side-by-side, more like a sheet of paper. And I believe that presentation looks better on a the typical widescreen monitor. But who am I?<\/p>\n<p>Still, if you want to view two documents side-by-side, click on the first and press Win+Right. Click on the second and press Win+Left. There! The documents are side-by-side courtesy of Windows, not Word, shown in Figure 2.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8619\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8619\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1027-figure2.png\" alt=\"Figure 2. Two documents, side-by-side.\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1027-figure2.png 550w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1027-figure2-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 2. Two documents, side-by-side.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you like to set Microsoft Word on the screen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8620,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions\/8620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}