With mouse-based applications, you look at your document through a window. (See Figure 3-11.) With some applications, you can have several windows on the screen. This lets you see more than one document at a time.

The contents of windows vary, but most windows have these things in common: a title bar, a close box, a size box, and a scroll bar. You can use these tools to change what you see through a window, change the size of a window, move a window, close a window, and activate a window.

Figure 3-11
Parts of a window

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Chapter 3: The Mouse and the Keyboard