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alias: user-guide-working-with-pages
description: "The GUI manages application pages through browsing, opening, closing, and navigation controls"
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# Working With Pages

The Critical Manufacturing GUI can be seen as a browser of application pages.

To open a page, browse and click on the page that you wish to open. Clicking on any entry in the navigation menu pane will open the corresponding menu page in the Contents Area.

![Navigation][navigation]

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	When trying to open the same object more than once, the application will navigate to the already existing page.

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	When clicking on a link within an open page, the system will re-use the existing open page by default. It is possible to force the link to be opened in a new page by right-clicking on the link and then selecting *Open in new page*.

To close a page, it is necessary to click the cross button on the top-right corner of the page tab, on the header. Alternatively, by right-clicking on the page tab, additional options will become available:

* **Fullscreen**: enlarges the size of the screen, hiding the menu bar, tool bar and title bar.
* **Add to Bookmarks**: creates a shortcut that directs your browser to the specific page or set of pages.
* **Open on Start-Up**: opens the specific page immediately after login.
* **Close Page**: closes the selected page.
* **Close Other Pages**: closes all pages except for the selected one.
* **Close All Pages**: closes all opened pages.

In addition, the button at the top-right corner of the page also provides a list of all opened pages; it allows you to quickly navigate between them, by clicking on the desired page or to close a page by clicking on the respective cross. The top-right corner menu also provides an option to close all open pages.

![Closing Pages][closingPages]

![closingPages2][closingPages2]

It is possible to hide or show the ribbon in all pages simply by double-clicking on the page header, as shown in the next picture.

![show_hide_ribbon][show_hide_ribbon]

Finally, on the left of the page's header, there is a go-back and a go-forward button that allows you to undo/redo your navigation steps.

![go_back][go_back]

[Navigation]: ./images/Navigation.png
[closingPages]: images/ClosingPages.png
[closingPages2]: images/ClosingPages2.png
[show_hide_ribbon]: images/show_hide_ribbon.gif
[go_back]: images/go_back.gif