Title Bars: Design Guidelines 

Title bars appear at the top of all program windows, dialog boxes, wizards, and message boxes.

• Include command buttons associated with the common commands of the primary window in the title bar. These buttons act as shortcuts to specific window commands. Clicking a title-bar button by using the primary mouse button invokes the same command as that associated with the command button. Optionally, you can support clicking a title bar command button with the secondary mouse button to display the shortcut menu for the window. All buttons on a primary window's title bar must have equivalent commands on the shortcut menu for that window.
  In a typical situation, one or more of the following buttons appear in a primary window (provided that the window supports the respective functions).

  Button	Command	Operation
  	Close	Closes the window
  	Minimize	Minimizes the window
  	Maximize	Maximizes the window
  	Restore	Restores the window
  	Help	Opens associated Help content

  Button Combination	Surface Types
  	Property sheets, dialog boxes
  	Wizards, pop-up message boxes
  	All other windows
  	All other windows (maximized)

  When these buttons are displayed, use the following guidelines:

  • In the title bar of every program and document window, use the command buttons shown.
  • When a command is not supported by a window, do not display its command button.
  • The Close button always appears as the rightmost button. Leave a gap between it and any other buttons.
  • The Minimize button always precedes the Maximize button.
  • The Restore button always replaces the Maximize button or the Minimize button when that command is carried out.

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