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Tip

Lots of people never even realize they have Tiles and Content view options— because these two
choices are normally hidden on the Ribbon! You actually have to scroll that teeny tiny panel of
view icons to see them.

Content view. This view attempts to cram as many details about
each file as will fit in your window. It’s a table that shows not just
a file’s icon and name, but also its metadata (Properties) and, in the

case of text and Word files, even the first couple of lines of text
inside it. (If you’re not seeing all the file details you think you
should, then make the window bigger. Windows adds and subtracts

columns of information as needed to fit.)

You’ll get to know Content view very well once you start using the
Search feature, which uses this view to display your results.

Tip

At the lower right of every File Explorer window, you see repeats of the two styles Microsoft
thinks you’ll find the most useful: Details view and large thumbnails. (They even have keyboard
shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+6 for Details, Ctrl+Shift+2 for large thumbnails.) By duplicating these
controls here, Windows is trying to save you the effort of opening the Ribbon if it doesn’t happen
to be open.

Immortalizing Your Tweaks

Once you’ve twiddled and tweaked a File Explorer window into a perfectly
efficient configuration of columns and views, you needn’t go through the
same exercise for each folder. Windows can immortalize your changes as

the standard setting for all your windows.