Click and drag the upper portion of any window toward the
top left of your monitor screen. When it
hits a certain sweet spot, it will
suddenly fill exactly one half of the screen on the left. Take a second window and throw it to the
right (by clicking and dragging the upper portion of that window towards the
top right of your monitor screen). You
should now have a perfectly split screen with the two windows you are working
on.
This is great when you are creating a PowerPoint from a Word
document or adding some figures from Excel into a report in Word.
My son showed me an even better shortcut for the same result. If you want to move the active window to the
right, hold down the Window key (button left of the keyboard between “Ctrl” and
“Alt”) and press the right cursor. The
window immediately goes to the right.
This acts as a toggle; if you continue to press the right cursor and the
window switches from the right side to the left, and then it will return to its
original position. Pressing the left
cursor while holding down the Window key produces a similar result.I’m glad the shortcut is so easy, otherwise I would be angry that the windows don’t remember their position when I click the minimize/maximize button. I’ll write more on that another day.
