Manage Windows Taskbar

Windows' Taskbar is useful, but if you have a small screen you might want to recover the space it takes up. To do that, right-click on an empty portion of the Taskbar and select Settings.

The second and third options are for automatically hiding the taskbar, either in desktop or tablet mode. In the screenshot below, we have set the option to hide it in desktop mode to On, and the Taskbar has disappeared, ...

... but moving the mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen makes it reappear.

If you want to move the Taskbar from the bottom of the screen, there is an option headed 'Taskbar location on screen' that will let you move it to the top, right or left side of the screen.

If you have, say, two or more Excel workbooks open, you will only see one button on the Taskbar for Excel, but hovering the mouse pointer over it will show thumbnails of them all and you can select the one you want. If you would like to see them separately on the taskbar, you can select one of the options under 'Combine taskbar buttons', such as to never combine the buttons or to do it only once the Taskbar is full.