After (VS 2010)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The majority of feedback around this change was positive, but, as with most UI changes, there has been a vocal group that preferred the older placement. When asked what they liked about the old placement, 99% of the time the response was, \u201cI liked the ability to quickly close tabs by repeatedly clicking on the \u2018X\u2019 without moving my mouse.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n I\u2019ll admit it: I used that feature quite a bit to quickly close tabs. That is, until I found out that there are better and more efficient<\/em> ways to clean up the Tab Well. Once I discovered these, I never looked back. So, for this \u201cTips and Tricks\u201d article, I wanted to share some of those ways to quickly close documents. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Under the Window menu is a handy command: Close All Documents<\/strong>. Clicking this will prompt you to save your work and will then close all documents that are currently open. Yes, this does affect more than just the documents in the Tab Well \u2013 floating documents are also closed. If you don\u2019t want to take your hands off the keyboard, simply press Alt+ W, L<\/strong>, to invoke the command (You can also assign it a keyboard shortcut under Tools->Options->Environment->Keyboard).<\/p>\n #2: Ctrl+F4<\/strong><\/p>\n Another handy shortcut is Ctrl+F4 <\/strong>which, on most machines, is bound to the command Window.CloseDocumentWindow. Pressing this keyboard combination will close the current document window that has focus. Therefore, if you want to quickly get rid of a number of items in your tab well, just keep pressing Ctrl+F4 and eventually they\u2019ll be gone. <\/p>\n #3: Right-Click->Close All But This<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want to close all but one open file, simply right-click on the tab and select Close All But This<\/strong>. This will close all open documents (floating included) except the tab you\u2019ve right-clicked on. <\/p>\n #4: Middle Click<\/strong><\/p>\n For those that prefer to use the mouse instead of the keyboard, there\u2019s still a quick way to close tabs: the middle click<\/strong>. This shortcut actually works in a number of other<\/a> popular<\/a> applications<\/a> as well. Simply place your mouse on the tab well and middle click to close the tab. You can keep your mouse in the first spot and click away.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure there are other ways to close documents, but these are some of my favorite. Hopefully you\u2019ll find these shortcuts useful. Please add any of your favorites that I missed to the comments.<\/p>\n![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/image_4.png\" "\\"image\\"")
<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a>#1:<\/strong> Window->Close All Documents<\/strong><\/p>\n