You can add an additional screen to boost monitor real estate. Here are guidelines for setting up dual monitors and working with Microsoft Office programs on multiple screens.
How to Connect Two Monitors to a Windows 10 Computer
This process involves getting a PC to recognize more than one monitor.
How to Connect Two Monitors to a Windows 7 Computer
The process is a little different if the PC has Windows 7 installed.
How to Connect Two Monitors to a Mac
Setting up dual monitors on a Mac is an easy process. After you connect a second monitor, choose to use it as an extended desktop or for video mirroring.
Optimize Office Programs for Dual Monitors
After your dual-monitor configuration is set up as an extended display, optimize your Office programs for the new desktop real estate. In older versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on a Windows PC, go to File > Options > Advanced. From there, look for Show All Windows in Taskbar in the Display section. With this selected, you should see the full Word interface in each window you’re running. In newer versions, this should be automatic. In PowerPoint, you can run a presentation on two monitors. This gives the presenter additional options for showing content, adding in-presentation markup, or supplementing the core message with additional windows, such as an internet search. This can be tricky, so practice in advance. Work with different Excel workbooks on multiple screens by starting Excel and opening the file as usual. Move this window so that it’s entirely on one monitor. Then, open Excel again. Open the second Excel file and minimize it so that it’s not full screen. Then you can move it to the other monitor.
