Use Multiple Windows

Quick reference

• 00:05 There's a nice feature about Microsoft Word.
• 00:07 So if you have multiple documents open, you can actually move them side by side or
• 00:12 view one on one monitor and one on the other.
• 00:15 But what if you're only working with one monitor?
• 00:17 You don't have that luxury of the second.
• 00:20 Well under the view ribbon, you can click I'm sorry the switch windows button.
• 00:25 First of all the switch windows allows you to switch back and
• 00:28 forth to another open document.
• 00:30 I've colored one green and one red just so
• 00:33 you can see that I am actually switching documents.
• 00:36 Then we have this feature right here called View Side by Side.
• 00:40 When I activate that, it actually adjusts the windows and
• 00:44 I'm going to go ahead and get the reset window positioned so
• 00:48 you can see that they are still side by side on the same screen.
• 00:52 They've kind of gotten a little larger than the video is showing.
• 00:55 But at least you can see that certainly they are side by side.
• 00:59 Because they are sharing a small screen space, look what happened to the ribbon.
• 01:03 It shrunk up a little bit, but don't let that affect you because I can still
• 01:07 tell the one that's active is right over here cuz the buttons are on it.
• 01:12 And so basically these little buttons if you float your mouse,
• 01:15 it will tell you what it's doing.
• 01:17 I'm still on view side by side.
• 01:19 It is still on.
• 01:20 And let's see, this one is synchronized scrolling and
• 01:24 this one is reset Window position.
• 01:26 So basically, you can scroll through these, you can turn off the view side
• 01:31 by side and it will go back to normal and reset itself.
• 01:35 But synchronized scrolling, so if you need them to scroll at the same time,
• 01:40 you can do that.
• 01:41 In this particular one, where it says exercise use multiple windows.
• 01:46 I've got page 1 and text is on page 1 and
• 01:49 I want to compare it to text that is on Page 7.
• 01:52 Well that means I'm going to have to scroll,
• 01:54 scroll, scroll down to Page 7 or I could just use the split button right here.
• 01:59 Again, on the View ribbon, click on Split.
• 02:01 When I activate that, It shows me this same document, but
• 02:05 it's been split into two.
• 02:07 And so right now, I'm on page one of seven.
• 02:10 I can go ahead and click on that, turn on my navigation pane and
• 02:14 I can absolutely go down to page seven on the bottom.
• 02:18 Okay, see so I'm on page seven.
• 02:21 And when I click right here it says, this is text on page seven.
• 02:24 And I'm looking right above it, the text on page one.
• 02:27 Notice when I clicked up here, page one showed up on the navigation pane.
• 02:31 When I click down here, page 7 shows up on the Navigation pane.
• 02:35 So, it helps to have your navigation pane on at the same time that you're using
• 02:39 those splits.
• 02:40 So, whenever you've got the split on, that button turns now into Remove Split and so
• 02:45 that's how you would turn that off, all right?
• 02:47 And so, our next feature would be the Arrange All.
• 02:50 If you you wanna arrange both separate documents on the same screen,
• 02:54 we just hit the Arrange All and then a new window will also open yet
• 02:59 another window for you to arrange with those.
• 03:02 But by golly the View section This windows area helps you contain how
• 03:07 many windows you have open, and it basically helps you be in control of
• 03:12 what window you're going to be looking at when you need the work done.
• 03:17 So use those features, practice with them.
• 03:20 The important thing is that you know they're there,
• 03:23 otherwise you would just struggle with switching from one window to the next.
• 03:28 So, thank you.

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