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A bunch of icons. These vary by app, and they’re described in this

chapter. If there are a lot of them, as in the Sports app, the menu
column of icons may actually scroll.

At the bottom of the main column:

Sign out. This round photo represents you, and the account you’ve

used to sign in.

A button at the very bottom. It opens a Settings panel, usually

on the opposite side of the screen—on the right.

A ← button usually appears at the very top-left corner of the window. That,
of course, is your Back button. It gets you out of the current screen, and
walks you back, back, back, eventually to the app’s main home screen. For
example, if you’re using the Maps app, the ← button backs you out of your

directions, or Streetside, or Settings—and back to the main Maps display.

Tip

In most Microsoft Store apps, there’s a keyboard shortcut for that ← button: Alt+ .

Not all Microsoft Store apps adopt Microsoft’s suggestion of the left-side
menu column, of course. But most of the built-in Windows apps do, so it’s

worth cozying up to the idea now.

3D Viewer

This little app, formerly called Mixed Reality Viewer, lets you dabble in
what Microsoft calls mixed reality and the rest of the world calls augmented

reality (where computer graphics are overlaid with the real-world camera
image), without having to own a fancy AR headset. It’s basically a camera
app that lets you add 3D objects to your camera’s feed and capture the

result as a graphic. See Figure 8-2.