One of the questions that people often ask me is about the keyboard equivalent of clicking on the buttons in the top right hand corner of a Window to minimise or maximise it. Well what you need to do is to access a special menu which is often called the "application control menu".
You do this by pressing alt + the spacebar. The menu drops down from the top left hand corner and gives you a number of options each with its own access key (the underlined letter) :
- maximise (x),
- minimise (n).
For example:
- ALT+SPACEBAR then X, maximises the current application window;
- ALT+SPACEBAR then R, restores the current application window to the size it was before being maximised;
- ALT+SPACEBAR then N, minimizes the current application window.