How to split screen in windows 11

Something that can be remarkably useful and productive is split screen in windows 11. In this way, for example, we can work on a Word document, displaying the relevant information in another window. This depends on our needs and our imagination.

Let's say you're working with a program like Excel and you want to view a video at the same time. We can split the screen, leave Excel on the left and video on the right, maybe a website with relevant information, whatever we want; These methods that we will discuss a little below work for all kinds of applications.

Split screen in Windows 11 with Snap Layout

The first thing will be to press "Windows + i" to open System Configuration. In this section we will have to go to System in the left sidebar and then to Multitasking.

We will have to make sure that the "Adjust Windows" option is activated. This will give us the possibility to access the Snap design, which was previously called Snap Assist, it is an interesting function to be able to split the screen.

Next, we will have to move the cursor over the button, maximize the window and we will be able to see that the Snap design appears. We click on the bar on the left and the window will fit in this place.

On the right side we can choose another window. We can also use the left or right slider to adjust the size.

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You can also choose other Snap layouts to split the screen into three parts and horizontally.

With keyboard shortcuts

In case we want to split the screen quickly and easily, we can use keyboard shortcuts. We will press Windows + Z in an active window and the Snap layout will appear; now we can choose the one that suits us.

We'll also look at the numbers associated with each plug-in layout. We can press the corresponding numbers on our keyboard to be able to adjust the desired position of the screen.

Another interesting option, which works on Windows 10, including. It consists of pressing Windows + one of the keyboard arrows in the active window. In this way the window will adapt and we will be able to choose the other window that we want to adjust next to it.

We can even host multiple windows to have 2, 3 or 4 active on screen at the same time. It's just a matter of playing with the Windows key and arrow keys on your keyboard.