Page 143 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

When you find the window you want, click or tap the thumbnail you’re

already pointing to. The window pops open so you can work in it.

Button Groups

In the old days, opening a lot of windows produced a relatively useless
display of truncated buttons. Not only were the buttons too narrow to read

the names of the windows, but the buttons also appeared in chronological
order, not in software-program order.

As you may have noticed, though, Windows now automatically

consolidates open windows into a single program button. (There’s even a
subtle visual sign that a program has multiple windows open: Its taskbar
icon may appear to be “stacked,” as shown on the Word icon in Figure 2-17,

or its underline may sprout a gray extension.) All the Word documents are
accessible from the Word icon, all the Excel documents sprout from the
Excel icon, and so on.

Point to a taskbar button to see the thumbnails of the corresponding
windows, complete with their names; click to jump directly to the one you
want. (On a touchscreen, tap the taskbar button to see the thumbnails; tap a

thumbnail to open it.)

Despite all the newfangled techniques, some of the following time-honored
basics still apply:

If a program has only one window open, you can hide or show it
by hitting the program’s taskbar button—a great feature that a lot

of PC fans miss. (To hide a background window, select its taskbar
button twice: once to bring the window forward, then a pause, and

then again to hide it.)

To minimize, maximize, restore, or close a window, even if you
can’t see it on the screen, point to its program’s button on the

taskbar. When the window thumbnails pop up, right-click the one
you want, and choose an action from the shortcut menu. (This
option isn’t available without a mouse/trackpad.)