#WINDOWS SPLIT SCREEN WINDOWS#
When you first click on Split button in menu, the Task Form view will appear in the bottom pane. Your contact and conversation windows are now split, and can be placed anywhere on your screen. You can also have one window taking up half the screen, while two tabs split the remaining half if that’s more convenient. To split the window/screen, go to menu Window - Split. Or you can repeat the steps outlined above if the selection grid disappears. Just select the ones you want to fill the remaining screen space. Once again the alternative option to perform this task is to drag the window to the top or bottom corner of your screen instead of using your keyboard, but this method can be imprecise so we’d recommend just using the shortcut as it’s much more straightforward.Īfter you set your first window to take up a quarter of the screen, any other tabs you have open should again appear as thumbnails. You can split your screen into two windows by using keyboard shortcuts: Open the window you’d like to view.
Position your mouse cursor at the header of one of the windows, then hold the left. Split the Screen Using Keyboard Shortcuts. When you're happy with the layout, select Apply. Do this with all the displays you want to move. In Display settings, select and drag the display to where you want. This is helpful if you want your displays to match how they're set up in your home or office. Next press Windows + Up/Down Arrow key and it will automatically snap to fill just a quarter. Open any two windows you want to put side by side in a split screen view. If you have multiple displays, you can change how they're arranged. To get a window to take up a quarter of your display, first press Windows + Left/Right Arrow key, this will make the window take up half of your screen. Open duplicate apps and drag them as needed so both are at least partly visible. On a smaller screen, the tab will be too small to be useable. There is a shortcut to split windows thats really useful once you get used to the process: Press down the Windows logo key while in an active window, and then. In Windows 7, 8 and 10, you can snap into a split screen mode rather quickly.
You also can hover over the maximize button to see the various ways. If you need to have more than two windows open at once you can go as far as splitting your screen into quarters, but do note this function is only really useful on a sizable HD screen. Step 1: Hit the Windows Key and Z on your keyboard, and you'll see a box pop up at the top right-hand side of the open window.