Most of the time, you want the window you're working in to file the whole screen so you can see as much of the document as possible. But sometimes it's useful to shrink the window so you can se more than one document at a time.

To shrink a window, point to the size box and drag it up and to the left. To expand a window, point to the size box and drag it down and to the right.

To move a window, point anywhere in the title bar (except on the close box), and drag the window wherever you want to put it.

Some applications let you have several windows on the screen at one time, but only one of those windows can be active. A window has to be active before you can make any changes to the information in it. The active window's title bar is highlighted to distinguish it from nonactive windows on the screen.

To activate a nonactive window, use the size box to shrink the active window until you can see the window you want to activate in the background. Then click anywhere on the nonactive window and it will move into the foreground and become the active window.

Using mouse-based programs

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