TECHNOLOGY
T
he idea of adding a second monitor to drawback in using a dual-monitor setup is
your PC may strike you as a bit odd— that you’ll need to clear a little more room
but you may quickly change your mind on your crowded desk next to your cur-
when you consider the advantages that rent monitor—but that’s something you’ve
this simple, yet unorthodox, alteration of- probably been meaning to do, anyway!
fers to your everyday effectiveness at work. The good news is there are software so-
Consider that with two monitors, you can lutions available to help you easily transi-
view graphics files and extra-wide tion from using a single
spreadsheets with ease, ensur-
ing that you can see all the data
at once—not to mention being
able to read the numbers without
squinting. You’ll also be able to
view two documents or perhaps a
spreadsheet and a word process-
ing file concurrently, which can
aid in your writing a report with-
out having to constantly pull up
and then minimize different win-
dows. Moreover, if you’re editing
photos, you can even keep tool-
bars on one screen so that you
can better view and edit your im-
ages on the other. And trouble-
shooting a software problem can
be far easier if you don’t have
to constantly toggle back and
forth between the instructions
in one window and the applica-
tion in another. Perhaps the only
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