Snap Your Screens to Attention With Snapview: Windows 11 Only
I am not one to boast about my multitasking skills primarily because I
have very little in the way of multitasking skills. Pretty much I
can only handle one problem at a time. But I can use multiple
tools to accomplish my one task. And I do try to automate as many
processes as I can. An example of how I use multiple tools to
accomplish one task is I have come to rely on SnapView to help get data
out of an Excel spreadsheet and into the HTML code to display on the
web. Yes, there are ways to automate the task, but for me the quantity
of the data is so little that manually transposing the data seems to be
the most efficient. Depending on the data, say a new city appears
in the visitor location list, I may want to copy and paste rather than
just type new data. SnapView makes this, well, a snap!
Before we can use SnapView, we must verify that the app is enabled.
To do this, we go to Settings and then the System Page. Scroll down and
find Mutitasking.
Now we open up the Multitasking control by clicking the right pointing triangle, and we see a number of settings. First is if Mutitasking is turned off, then turn it on by moving the slider button at the right. Then verify that the items in the list are checked.
After we close out of the Settings screen we can now use Snapview. We first put our focus on one of the document screens we want to snap. With Snapview enabled, when we mouse over the MAXIMIZE Square on the open window of the app we have selected we see four sample model layouts. I generally only work with 2 app screens at a time. But as you can see, Snapview will accommodate up to four separate screens by default. Here I chose the Excel screen that holds the data to be transposed first.
So we setup the left side of our screen by mousing over the window we want the present application to appear in. Our model screen turns blue to indicate that it has been selected.
So now we select from the available open windows to populate the right side of the split screen. I have highlighted the Expression Web app that I use for building webpages. At a mouse click into the Expression Web app, it will magically populate the right side of the two app split screen.
And, viola, I can now easily transpose by typing or by copy & paste data in my Excel spreadsheet into the table of the webpage and all looks really nifty. And I don't have to remember to much.
One trick new feature for Windows 11 that is really useful.
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Gerald Reiff