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| by Hamish Taylor | |
| Friday, 22 August 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Having two applications both available full-screen enables you to relatively easily compare information and perform tasks such as copying and pasting between them. This is particularly valuable for people working with small screens who cannot display two documents side-by-side. It is not quite the same as having multiple physical monitors side by side, but almost. Whilst this may not seem like a wonderful thing, having four Virtual Desktops with different applications on each one, can make life quite a bit easier. I can easily move between the desktops by clicking on the icons or by using the following keystrokes: Control + Alt + Right (or Left or Up or Down) keys. Finally, if you have an application running on Desk 1 and you want to move it to another desktop, right click on the application icon in the taskbar, and select "Move to another workspace" and select the appropriate desktop. You can also choose to display that application on every desktop, which is useful if you are playing a movie in the background; you can move between all the available desktops and still have it there. Once you get the hang of using multiple desktops, you begin to see how powerful they can be and how they improve your productivity. Eventually you wonder what you ever did without the ability to move between virtual desktops and move applications around as you wish. As always, thanks for reading to the end of another article and please feel free to leave feedback and comments. I do appreciate them all.
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