The Window menu contains commands for manipulating and opening windows. Most of the windows you open from this menu have all the standard window elements, like scroll bars, a close box, and zoom icons.

Tile, Cascade, Close All, Refresh Display, Size/Move, Zoom, Next, Previous, Close, List


  • Choose Window> Tile to tile all your open Edit windows.
  • Choose Window> Cascade to stack all open Edit windows.
  • The Refresh Display command restores the IDE screen. This is handy if your program has accidentally overwritten the screen.
  • Choose Zoom to resize the active window to the

maximum size.

If the window is already zoomed, you canchoose this command to restore it to itsprevious size.

You can also double-click anywhere on thewindow's title bar (except where an iconappears), or on the Zoom box in the window'supper right corner (2), to zoom or unzoom the window.

  • Choose Next to make the next window active, which makes it the topmost open window.
  • Choose Previous to make the most-recently active window be active again.
  • Choose Close to close the active window. You can also close by pressing the key in the left corner of the window (1).
  • The List command opens the Window List dialog box, which lists all the windows currently open.
  • If you press Shift while you use the arrow keys, you can change the size of the window. When it's at the size you want, press Enter.

If a window has a Resize corner, you can drag that corner to resize the window (3).

  • When you choose Window> Size/Move, the active window moves in response to the arrow keys. Once you've moved the window to where you want it, press Enter. You can also move a window by dragging its title bar.