### 2.9 The Window View

The `Window View` displays the currently opened windows. It is opened through the `Tools->Views->Windows` menu.

It can display the opened windows in one of two ways:

- Sorted alphabetically
- Organized by notebooks, as in the GPS window itself. This latter view is mostly useful if you have lots of windows open

The mode is selected through the contextual menu.

You can also choose, through this contextual menu, whether only the source editors should be visible, or whether all windows should be displayed.

This window allows you to quickly select and focus on a particular window, by clicking on the corresponding line with the left mouse button. If you click and leave the mouse button pressed, this starts a drag and drop operation so that you can also move the window to some other place in the desktop (see the description of the MDI earlier in this document).

Multiple windows can be selected by clicking with the mouse while pressing the control or shift keys. The Window view provides a contextual menu to easily close all selected windows at once, which is a very fast way to cleanup your desktop after you have finished working on a task.