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blank part of the taskbar and choose Properties
from the pop-up menu. When the Taskbar
Properties dialog box appears, deselect the
Auto-Hide the Taskbar check box. (Or, to turn
on the Auto Hide feature, select the check box.)
I Can’t Keep Track
of Open Windows
You don’t have to keep track of all those open win-
dows. Windows 8 does it for you with a secret key
combination: Hold the Alt key and press the Tab key,
and a little bar appears, displaying the icons for all
your open windows. Keep pressing Tab; when
Windows highlights the icon of the window you’re
after, release the keys. The window pops up.
Or visit the taskbar, that long strip along the bottom
of your screen. Mentioned in Chapter 2, the taskbar
lists the name of every open window. Click the name
of the window you want, and that window hops to the
top of the pile.
If a program icon on the taskbar contains several open
windows — you’re simultaneously editing several doc-
uments in Microsoft Word, for example — right-click
the Microsoft Word icon. A pop-up menu appears, let-
ting you click the document you want to access.
Can’t find a previously opened Start screen app? Hold
down the
key and press the Tab key: Thumbnail
images of all your open apps appear on a strip along
the screen’s left edge. Keep pressing the Tab key until
you’ve highlighted the desired app; let go of the Tab
key, and the selected app fills the screen.
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