Sometimes there are extremely powerful and useful features of programs that go undiscovered by many people for way too long. One such feature is the new window.
What: In Microsoft Office programs, you can open a new "window" of your current document/spreadsheet/etc. This allows you to have multiple windows of the same file open at different places, at different views, and make changes in any of them.
Why: Use this when you need to do simple cross-referencing (without using other referencing features/programs), citations/references/footnotes/tables of contents, describe the data listed in a table, or review/compare multiple pieces of a document simultaneously.
How: On the MS Office "Ribbon" (the main menu of sorts in newer versions of Office), click on the "View" tab. Then click on the "New Window" button. You can choose to synchronize the scrolling of the documents or not. This means that you can choose to have it set up so that when scroll on one of the windows, the other window scrolls the same amount. This synchronized scrolling can be useful in certain limited circumstances.
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