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as tall as your screen, sort of like half-maximizing it.

Grab the bottom edge of your window and drag it down, to the bottom edge

of your screen. The window snaps vertically to the top and bottom of your
screen but maintains its width and horizontal position.

Tip

There’s a keyboard shortcut for this feature: Shift+ + to create the full-height effect.

To restore the window to its original dimensions, drag its top or bottom
edge away from the edge of your screen.

Note

These window-morphing tricks make a good complement to the traditional “Cascade windows,”
“Show windows stacked,” and “Show windows side by side” commands that appear when you
right-click an empty spot on the taskbar.

The Ribbon

Windows offers all kinds of crazy ways to shape, sort, group, slice, and dice
the contents of a File Explorer window. The controls are hiding in the

Ribbon, which is a glorified horizontal toolbar at the top of the window.

Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other Microsoft programs have Ribbons of
their own, but here’s an introduction to the one in File Explorer.

This Ribbon offers several tabs full of buttons. They can differ from

window to window; for example, in a window full of pictures, you get
buttons that are especially useful for managing picture files (Figure 2-5).