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Many people at work with large monitors have no clue on how to effectively use them

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For some stuff you can't alt-tab back and forth. You could, but if you're transcribing something that can't be copied, for example, alt-tabbing is going to be hell.
 
im the only person in my whole unit who has turned their widescreen 90 degrees so that it displays more info... yet everybody goes "wow, why does your screen look funny?"
 
When I try to do that I always spend more time trying to position the various windows in an optimum fashion that I would have alt-tabbing between them. Even then I get several windows that are just a tad too small for all the content to be displayed and I waste even more time manipulating the scroll bars to get to whatever info I need in each window. I'd rather just go with one window that's way too big and switch between them.
 
Originally posted by: jtvang125
They are 22" widescreen monitors. Besides IT almost everyone who has one really don't know how to use them effectively. They just keep one app in full screen and switch back and forth when needed. We've shown them that with the increase screen size you can have several windows opened and spread across the screen but they just go straight back to their old ways.

What's funny is that the people who do know about spreading the windows out are using 15" monitors while the people who don't have 22" monitors.
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We run into the same thing here. Accounting just has to have (2) 22" monitors. We argued them into a trial and low and behold most of the accountants did not see an increased benifit of the second monitor. I can't tell you how many times I went over there to see them working in the accounting software on one screen and outlook open on the other. Thats it. Nothing else. They don't even need to go between the two programs that often

*shrug*
 
I prefer 1 maximized window. Sometimes I need to see something side by side, but those circumstances are rare.
 
I use two 24in'ers at home as well, and I only use the real estate half the time, mostly when working remote at home.
 
It's Command Tab on a Mac. 😛

I don't do side-by-side on a single monitor, but I do cascade. Mostly so I can easily use the mouse to switch rather than CmdTab.
 
Depends. 22" @ 1680x1050 and I still maximize my both evolution and thunderbird emails program so I can see contacts, calendars and vertical view for email, and fit it all in. They sit on their dedicated workspace #1, browser is usually maximized on workspace #2 (because some websites just insist on being wide as hell, or because I'll have so many tabs open). Workspaces #3 and #4 are where the real work gets done.
 
so how to effectively use large monitors?

and who the hell is the OP? i cant tell w/all these timewarps
 
I have a 15.4 inch screen on my laptop and always split my screen. When I plug in my Wide screen 21 incher I do 3 or 4 but mostly 3

window 7 split screen thing helps alot 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Depends. 22" @ 1680x1050 and I still maximize my both evolution and thunderbird emails program so I can see contacts, calendars and vertical view for email, and fit it all in. They sit on their dedicated workspace #1, browser is usually maximized on workspace #2 (because some websites just insist on being wide as hell, or because I'll have so many tabs open). Workspaces #3 and #4 are where the real work gets done.
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yea most 22" have that sh*tty resolution. you really need two monitors to really use multi windows comfortably at that level.
 
Originally posted by: Exterous
Originally posted by: jtvang125
They are 22" widescreen monitors. Besides IT almost everyone who has one really don't know how to use them effectively. They just keep one app in full screen and switch back and forth when needed. We've shown them that with the increase screen size you can have several windows opened and spread across the screen but they just go straight back to their old ways.

What's funny is that the people who do know about spreading the windows out are using 15" monitors while the people who don't have 22" monitors.
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We run into the same thing here. Accounting just has to have (2) 22" monitors. We argued them into a trial and low and behold most of the accountants did not see an increased benifit of the second monitor. I can't tell you how many times I went over there to see them working in the accounting software on one screen and outlook open on the other. Thats it. Nothing else. They don't even need to go between the two programs that often

*shrug*
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still, it breaks your attention/train of thought less to glance at outlook on a second monitor than doing an app switch. not something you can measure that well😛
 
Originally posted by: jtvang125
They are 22" widescreen monitors. Besides IT almost everyone who has one really don't know how to use them effectively. They just keep one app in full screen and switch back and forth when needed. We've shown them that with the increase screen size you can have several windows opened and spread across the screen but they just go straight back to their old ways.

What's funny is that the people who do know about spreading the windows out are using 15" monitors while the people who don't have 22" monitors.
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The problem is that they are the short-screen monitors. Some idiot at your company paid additional money for 22" widescreen (which should legally be called shortscreen) monitors with 8% fewer pixes than much cheaper standard 21" monitors.

After you include all of the new massive Office 2007 tool bars or the numerous internet toolbars, it is virtually impossible to see much of anything on a shortscreen monitor (especially in smaller windowed form).
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: jtvang125
They are 22" widescreen monitors. Besides IT almost everyone who has one really don't know how to use them effectively. They just keep one app in full screen and switch back and forth when needed. We've shown them that with the increase screen size you can have several windows opened and spread across the screen but they just go straight back to their old ways.

What's funny is that the people who do know about spreading the windows out are using 15" monitors while the people who don't have 22" monitors.
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The problem is that they are the short-screen monitors. Some idiot at your company paid additional money for 22" widescreen (which should legally be called shortscreen) monitors with 8% fewer pixes than much cheaper standard 21" monitors.

After you include all of the new massive Office 2007 tool bars or the numerous internet toolbars, it is virtually impossible to see much of anything on a shortscreen monitor (especially in smaller windowed form).
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Heh, I love this terminology. Unfortunately 16:9 seems to be popping up everywhere.
 
I rock to 20's at work at native res. I tile a bit, I make sure to put outlook on the far left so I can tell when I get new mail without switching. On the right of the left monitor I have FF, and on the second monitor, which is normally used to watch graphs and alerts on the network/systems is where I throw up my putty windows. So I can see when I get mail quickly, be researching on FF, and doing whatever needs to be done on the right monitor. Making sure to alt+tab to the graphs every once and a while so the world isn't melting down or anything.

My company decided to roll our 2nd monitors based on seniority. So we have CSRs with dual monitors, 3" task bars and everything full screened. Seems ... less than efficient ...
 
Originally posted by: Drako
We have 22" 1920 x 1200 screens here at my office, and there is one guy that has his monitor set to 800 x 600 resolution. He claims that he can't read the monitor when it's at that resolution, no matter how many times I've explained to him that he can change the font sizes.
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When you mess w/ font sizes and dpi settings to make things larger / more readable, many websites and programs fail to display the same as if you used a lower resolution. I know AOL is an example of this, as are certain websites. This is a problem for folks with poor eyesite as you are forced to running the display at a non-optimal resolution or deal with pages that don't display correctly w/ modiifed DPI / Font settings.

Personally I use native resolutions and multi-windows on my desktop, as well as multidesktops to switch between things.

Perhaps I fail at font/dpi settings and it's something simple/obvious but so far I've not had much luck with going about it that way.


 
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