Working with More Than One Document

Think of how you use your computer. On a typical day, you probably have two or three applications running at once—WordPerfect, your email application, several Web browser windows, a scanner or digital camera program, and so on. Your taskbar has buttons for every program that you are running so that you can quickly switch back and forth between programs.

In that same spirit, WordPerfect lets you work on up to nine document windows at once. Each document has a button on the application bar (at the bottom of the screen), so you can quickly switch back and forth between documents (see Figure 4.10).

Figure 4.10. Each open document has a button on the application bar.

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