# Viewing Modes

Notepad++ is a Windows application, and thus can be maximised, restored or minimised (to the system tray) as such. It has two extra ways to use as much screen real estate as possible.

Using View->Toggle Full Screen Mode, the title, menu and status bar, as well as the toolbar, are hidden, and the text can occupy an extra portion of the screen, with the tab bar still visible at the top. Using View->Post-It, also a toggle, replaces that tab bar by an horizontal gap. So,what could happen enabling both? the tab bar disappears and the text can be displayed on the full monitor height.

Combined with View->Always on Top, they contribute to make text as easy and flexibly visible as one could wish.

Another way to view text is in a nutshell, or from above. This ability is provided by View -> Document Map. The dockable window that this menu entry toggles on and off shows the whole of your document for one-glance overview and fast navigation. Clicking in this view will immediately display the relevant page of the active document in the active editor. The area visible in the editor is rendered with a translucent highlighting in the Document Map.

The translucency of the highlighting enables one to have a clearer view of the structure of the text, since the syntax colouring is still visible.

Please note that the Document Map is only available in Unicode builds.