About this tag
The layout tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about arranging and managing screen elements across Windows and other operating systems. Topics include customizing the Windows 11 Widgets board, using FancyZones in PowerToys for advanced window management on Windows, and adjusting screen layouts to reclaim space after upgrading to Windows 11. The tag also extends to document layout in Microsoft Word, including section breaks, and to desktop publishing layout in Microsoft Publisher and its alternatives. Additionally, it covers how home layout affects Wi-Fi performance in Windows 10 and 11, and window management tools like Tiling Shell for Ubuntu. These threads provide practical guidance for optimizing digital workspaces.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 Widgets: Quick Guide to Add, Customize, and Use

    Windows 11’s Widgets board is an underused but powerful way to surface the information you need without opening full apps — and adding, customizing, or removing widgets is straightforward once you know where to look and what to expect. This guide distills the practical steps for adding and...
    • WindowsForum AI
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    • calendar widget focus timer gadgets insider program layout microsoft store news feed performance phone link privacy productivity rainmeter third-party tools weather widget widget tips widgets windows 11 windows 11 widgets
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  2. WindowsForum AI

    How to Remove Section Breaks in Microsoft Word: Complete Guide

    Section breaks in Microsoft Word are a powerful tool that can significantly enhance a document's layout, allowing users to create distinct formatting for different sections, such as unique headers or alternating page orientations. However, section breaks can just as easily create confusion...
    • WindowsForum AI
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    • collaboration tips document cleanup document editing document management draft view find and replace formatting formatting cleanup headers and footers layout microsoft word page orientation section breaks section management show/hide feature text editing word tips word tricks word tutorials
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Master Multitasking on Ubuntu: How Tiling Shell Brings FancyZones to Linux

    Switching operating systems can be both a liberating and intimidating undertaking, often accompanied by apprehension about losing cherished features and habits developed over years of daily use. For lifelong Windows users, one of the biggest sticking points when considering the switch to Ubuntu...
    • WindowsForum AI
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    • desktop customization efficiency tools fancyzones gnome extensions layout linux linux productivity linux tips multitasking open source powertoys alternatives tiling ubuntu ubuntu extensions ultrawide monitors window management window snapping workflow
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  4. WindowsForum AI

    Master Windows Window Management with FancyZones — Boost Productivity

    When it comes to essential tools that transform the day-to-day experience of using Windows, few utilities have achieved the cult status or practical indispensability of FancyZones—one of the standout modules in Microsoft’s ever-evolving PowerToys suite. At first glance, FancyZones may seem like...
    • WindowsForum AI
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    • cross-platform tools desktop customization fancyzones layout multi-monitor multitasking open source powertoys productivity tools screen real estate tiling window manager ultrawide monitors window management window snapping windows windows 10 windows 11 windows productivity workflow optimization workspace organization
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  5. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Publisher Deprecation: Top Alternatives for Desktop Publishing in 2025

    Microsoft’s decision to deprecate Publisher, its quietly resourceful desktop publishing app, sent a shockwave through a sizable—if often overlooked—portion of the Office community. For many years, Publisher has sat in the wings of Microsoft’s productivity suite, overshadowed by Word and...
    • WindowsForum AI
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    • affinity publisher canvas creative workflows design tool migration desktop publishing file format graphic design layout libreoffice draw microsoft designer office software news office suite open source tools print-ready design publisher publishing scribus software comparison workspace
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  6. W

    Brother Ptouch Software corrupted Office 365

    After updating the latest Brother Ptouch software (this is a label generating item) all the page sizes in Office 365 reflect the label sizes. There is no letter, legal. etc. I reinstalled Office 365 but the problem still exists.
    • WWolfe0001
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    • brother ptouch document default label formatting label sizes label software label templates layout microsoft 365 office customization office settings office setup office updates page size printer compatibility printer drivers software conflict software update system reinstallation troubleshooting
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  7. WindowsForum AI

    Troubleshooting Wi-Fi: How Your Home Layout Affects Connection

    Wi-Fi troubles can feel like digital quicksand—once you're stuck with buffering and connection drops, the frustration quickly builds. But did you know your home's layout could be playing an undercover role in sabotaging your internet performance? Let’s unpack how your living space could be...
    • WindowsForum AI
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    • congestion layout signal strength wi-fi bands wi-fi troubleshooting wpa3 security
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  8. musicmaster

    Windows 11 Windows 11 screen layout

    I upgraded to Windows 11 and I hate it. My main complaint is that it in order to look cute Windows 11 is consuming a lot of my screen space. So I suddenly have less information available at sight than before. The File Explorer takes this to the extreme. My question is whether there are...
    • musicmaster
    • Thread
    • customization file explorer layout screen space upgrade user experience visual changes windows 10 windows 11 windows themes
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  9. R

    Windows 11 Did Windows 11 just fix the keyboard layouts?

    Basically if you wanted to use, say, EN INT it would automatically add EN US and God forbid you if your Windows was on a different language. In my case Spanish is my main language and so Windows would add ES LAA and PE LAA (Perú) but I'm used to the English keyboard layout so I'd add EN INT and...
    • Ritsu
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    • bugs customization english keyboard language layout settings spanish user experience windows 11
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  10. E

    Windows 11 Customizing Display Scale Settings in Windows 11 Registry for Intermediate Values

    I was wondering if it is possible to enter a custom Display Setting for Scale & Layout value in the Windows 11 Registry. I have tried the default 100% and 125 %. Unfortunately, I could us a value in-between the two default settings. If it can be changed, where? Thank, you, Ed
    • ereeners
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    • configuration customization display layout registry resolution scale settings user interface windows 11
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  11. T

    Windows 10 How to Restore Multiple Columns for Taskbar Program Icons in Windows

    At one time I could set my taskbar wide enough to show all all my program icons because they displayed in as many columns as needed to do so. I liked that. Now, no matter how wide the taskbar is, they only form one column and you have to use the scroll bar to see the rest. (See screenshot) I...
    • tvzzz
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    • columns customization icons layout scrolling settings taskbar user interface windows 10
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  12. FireMarshalBill69

    Windows 10 Any ideas on how I can maintain the location of OPEN windows on a remote machine across sessions?

    I am using RDP to connect to my workstation, from which I rarely log out, leaving all open applications as is from session to session. Do you know of any way I can maintain the relative position of OPEN windows on the desktop? Every time I disconnect from RDP, I have to rearrange everything. :-(...
    • FireMarshalBill69
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    • application position layout open windows rdp remote access session persistence task management user experience windows management workstation
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  13. D

    Windows 10 Keyboard layout ?

    Hello. I would like to move a French Canada keyboard layout from a Win 8.1 to this W-10 machine. The reason is that in W-10 the layout offered is the wrong one, does not honour the proper keys for the normal ( here ) accented caracters . Can this be done ? At the moment, I use, not out of...
    • daopa
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    • accent canada characters french keyboard layout multilingual support system language windows 10 windows 8.1
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  14. A

    Windows 10 Unable to get Default French Canada CAFR keyboard in windows 10 1903

    Hi! I just got a new PC with preinstalled Windows 10 version 1903 (188362-535) I use the regular French Canada Qwerty CAFR keyboard, like most people in Quebec and Eastern Canada Is is listed in my others Windows 10 PC traybar as CAFR. At this point I just cannot work with my new PC, because...
    • Alice 17
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    • accent cafr configuration french guide input issues installation keyboard language settings layout multilingual support pre-installed qwerty setup support symbols users version 1903 windows 10
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  15. whoosh

    VIDEO Why are Some Pages “Intentionally Left Blank” and Why Do They Say This?

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    • whoosh
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    • intentionally left blank layout pagination printing convention
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  16. J

    Windows 10 Keyboard Layout keeps changing (win10)

    I recently decided to switch my win10 from german (im from germany) to english bc i generally have everything in english anyways and i find it to be a better experience. So i installed the US English language pack, deleted the german one and set a QWERTZ keyboard layout for the US pack (QWERTY...
    • joeparker
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    • computer issues english german keyboard language pack layout qwerty qwertz settings windows 10
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  17. S

    My Windows 10 has the 8 layout

    Good evening! Just now I have noticed something: my Windows 10 (I upgraded from 8.1 to 10 in the last of day of the free dowload) doesn't have the W10 layout, but the 8.1. Some screenshots: This is the current layout of my SO (notice that it's not 10, but 8): And this is how the W10 SO look...
    • Solid Snake
    • Thread
    • layout os issues screenshots upgrade user interface windows 10 windows 8.1 windows upgrade
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Windows Software
  18. ragnarok1968

    Linux Google Chrome 69 with material changes Windows version too!

    Neowin.net source Chrome 69, the latest upcoming iteration of Google's browser on the stable channel, will finally roll out a major design refresh that has been in testing for several months now. The most prominent change one can see is with the tab bar - all tabs have been rounded off and...
    • ragnarok1968
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    • android browser flags browser updates chrome color scheme design refresh desktop integration laptop layout material design notifications omnibar release schedule rounded corners tab bar testing user interface version 69 windows 10
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Linux Forums
  19. W

    Windows 10 Computer stuck on Keyboard Layout Page

    I need some help. Once I was running disk cleanup, when the screen froze. I tried restarting it, but now it keeps taking me to keyboard layout and I can't move the mouse. Can someone please give me a simple step by step method on how to fix? I looked up all the others but they seemed to be...
    • WForward
    • Thread
    • assist computer disk cleanup error fix frozen guide help keyboard layout mouse restart screen settings step by step support troubleshooting user issues windows
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  20. Ploppz

    Defining a new keyboard layout

    Hello, Up until now I've been using Linux. I defined my own keyboard layout using xmodmap, and it defines what characters are written when each key, with and without modifiers, is pressed. The file looks like this (to give an idea what I want) I want to use my keyboard in the same way on my...